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- From: bil@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Bill Conner)
- Subject: Re: Foucault
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:22:43 GMT
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- Alan Greig (ccdarg@dct.ac.uk) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Yeah, as a matter of fact, I used it to cross-reference some of Eco's
- citations - they were there. Made the book all the more fascinating
- don't you think.
-
- Bill
-