Leggo my Eco

[Henry Musikar]

Eco? "Great read... almost as great as Pynchon."!? Maybe it's me, 
overlong removed from a comparatively negligable scholastic 
experience as I am, but in comparison to Eco, Mr. P is warm, common, 
Simple ('tis a gift...), heartfelt and full-blooded. Don't get my 
wrong, I "respect" Eco. Particularly as a semiologist/semiotician.

We had a list discussion some time ago on recommending books. I have 
recommended P to a few people; appropriately, I think. But to whom 
would one recommend Eco's bloodless prose.

On 21 Oct 96 at 18:45, David Nevin Friedman wrote:

> Date:          Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:45:06 -0400 (EDT)
> From:          David Nevin Friedman <namdeirf at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
> To:            "Adam J. Thornton" <adam at phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
> Cc:            pynch <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject:       Re: Mason Dixon

> 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...
> 
> "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than have a frontal
> lobotomy..."
>   --Unknown
> 
> "You have to forget about what other people say, when you're
> supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving.  You have to
> forget about all these things.  You have to go on and be crazy. 
> Craziness is heaven."
>   --Jimi Hendrix
> 
> On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Adam J. Thornton wrote:
> 
> > > Sez here in the New columbia encyclo that Charles Mason and
> > > Jeremiah Dixon were astronomers.  I admit I'm ignorant. 
> > > Surveying have a heck alot to do with astronomy in the 18th C?
> > 
> > Oh, my, yes.
> > 
> > Umberto Eco's _Island of the Day Before_ is a great read for the
> > background of the longitude problem.  By the mid-18th century, you
> > had an accurate chronometer, and star positions at given times
> > were one good way to accurately locate your position; for a
> > geodetic survey this would have been an invaluable set of skills.
> > 
> > Adam
> > -- 
> > adam at phoenix.princeton.edu | Viva HEGGA! | Save the choad! |
> > 64,928 | Fnord "Double integral is also the shape of lovers curled
> > asleep":Pynchon | Linux Thanks for letting me rearrange the
> > chemicals in your head. | Team OS/2 You can have my PGP passphrase
> > when you pry it from my cold, dead brain.
> > 
> 
> 

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