It's one of the best books I've read. Of course, after I recommended it to a friend he said he put it down because it was too obscure in its references. I just sort of assumed that my friend, who was odd and had played Dungeons & Dragons, was familiar with Rosicrucians, Templars, John Dee, Qabbalah, Candomble, and a whole host of other things occult.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Umberto Eco has died, aged 84.
- 20/02/2016 08:27:37 AM
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No offense to Harper Lee, but this eclipses her death by several orders of magnitude.
- 20/02/2016 04:31:57 PM
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From a literary standpoint, absolutely.
- 22/02/2016 02:31:54 PM
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Run, don't walk, to Foucault's Pendulum.
- 22/02/2016 08:42:32 PM
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