Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197 “I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses. ”

“My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.” 😂 One of my first memorable novels was "The Name of the Rose."

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Clytemnestra! Phew that was a book- I just devoured it! Seeing so many similarities in men having trouble accepting women’s power, intellect and rage between way back when and now…

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