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- From: ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig)
- Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
- Subject: Re: Foucault
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.120357.3132@dct.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 12:03:56 GMT
- References: <C1GBAE.IJq@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu>
- Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology
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- In article <C1GBAE.IJq@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu>, bil@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Bill Conner) writes:
- >
- > Hey, I love a good conspiracy, especially when someone really
- > believes it. I can recommend a couple of neat conspiracy books
- > (they're even in paper-back):
- >
- > Holy Blood, Holy Grail
- > and
- > Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
- >
- > These are fascinating books. The first is supposed to be non-fiction,
- > but who can tell (it was written in part by a Frenchman after all).
- > The second is fiction but is outstanding. Umberto Eco (or his
- > translator) is el primo. I especially enjoyed his loving aside about a
- > word processor (even though it was running on a Apple of all things).
-
- And "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" is mentioned in "Foucault's Pendulum"
- amusingly enough.
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