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From: Derek Bell <dbell@maths.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: (urth) Eco's tic Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:55:24 +0100 In message <199808252038.NAA10702@lists1.best.com>, m.driussi@genie.com writes: >But mainly I want to argue that FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM, which I didn't >like very much (agreeing with you, I'm guessing), is on second glance >rather a lot like THE NAME OF THE ROSE (which I liked better). They >both in their conclusions involve a destruction of the "fiction" >which has been so carefully built up between the author and the >reader over the course of the novel. I think that _Foucault's Pendulum_ deals with matters of interpretation and over-interpretation. At one point the narrator mentions that Belbo had a list of 120 quotes from various people. I noticed that there were 120 short sections in the book, each with a quote at the start - hmmm... is Eco hinting that these are the quotes in Belbo's list? On the other hand, it could also be read as a book about reason being enslaved to an obsession with power. Derek - not a Knight Templar, honest! *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/