Mason Dixon

[jm]

Someone sez:

>Anything by Umberto Eco is a great read...almost as great as Pynchon.
>Anyone ever read Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum?  It makes GR look
>simple...
>

Well, comparisons are odious, as somebody or other else has written or said.
Actually, when I read FP I thought it was an attempt at a TRP-style novel
with lots of material obviously lifted right out of Francis A. Yates' _Art
of Memory_.  FP even seemed a little cheap, as though it were aimed toward
the not-too-discerning-reader.  It reminded me of the efforts of Jim Dodge
(_FUP_ excepted) or maybe even those of Robert Anton Wilson.  But not TRP.
Nooooo!

                                     -jm