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Some Umberto Eco, continuing on in this challenging but rewarding work

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It can be in a fun way that has the joviality of those possessed with knowingness. In the Corbett Report episode about this book, the big takeaway I had from it was that Eco doesn't teach you anything specifically, and this is why he's valuable, for whatever is true, is seen from whichever position you're looking at it from, he rather presents a dazzling array of possibilities to consider, and that is how I approach all my favorite thinkers and anyone, the material may be actually pointing and insisting on a specific something but what I admire is how it's expressed. Another guy that squares much with this generalized assembling of data so as to come up all of us with our unique opinions about it is the book Total Freedom a collection of talks from Krishnamurti, but I have to say that seeing videos of and audio recordings of him lowered him in my estimation. Eco rather as I see it was more of a educator, wanting his "students" to come up with their own answers, judged on creativity.
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hunkalove · 70-79, M
I loved The Name of the Rose. Didn't get very far with Foucault's Pendulum. Gave up on him after that.
hunkalove · 70-79, M
@MrSmartyPants I'll probably get hit by a car. Twice recently I've almost been run over by buses. You'd think I could see that but they are so big I couldn't see that they were moving. The drivers got mad at me but they didn't slow down.
MrSmartyPants · 46-50, M
@hunkalove Is there a corner they come from? Be careful while crossing streets try to only pass when there's those flashing lights alerting motorists to stop.
MrSmartyPants · 46-50, M
@hunkalove One last question, the ole what about this one? Alan Moore's Jerusalem, I got the audiobook as well as the ebook of it, audiobook read well by Simon Vance, great voice to listen to, he does Milton's Paradise Lost too!! Moore was big in the sci-fi realms, writing hallucinatory stuff though in Jerusalem. LONG book too.

 
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