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Serendipities language and lunacy6/8/2023 ![]() For example, Christopher Columbus assumed that the world was much smaller than it is, land so he assumed he could find a quick route to the East via the West. I was partially attracted to Serendipities because of the title, but it's not an easy to read novel, but rather a non-fiction study.Įco looks at mistakes that have shaped human history. ![]() There are secret symbols and coded manuscripts in a higher level version of the Dan Brown novel formula. ![]() Eco isĪnd he mixes in Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon. Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate and the story is a medieval mystery with a series of seven murders. That novel takes place in 1327 in an Italian Franciscan abbey that is suspected of heresy. It is about some riddles of history and the "linguistics of the lunatic." I am an Umberto Eco reader and first noticed him, as many people did, with his novel The Name of the Rose. Umberto Eco's book, Serendipities: Language and Lunacy, is not a book about education or technology. “Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer’s daughter.” - Julius Comroe ![]()
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