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« on: February 20, 2016, 12:54:48 PM »
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/20/italian-author-umberto-eco-dies-aged-84

Italian novelist and semiotician, primarily known for his 1980 novel The Name of the Rose. He's been battling with cancer.

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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2016, 01:19:41 PM »
I still have Foucault's Pendulum unread on my bedside table. It'll be a different thing to start it now.
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2016, 02:54:22 PM »
A significant loss for scholarship and for literature. William of Baskerville is one of my favorite characters in all of fiction. IPR
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2016, 02:55:49 PM »
Yeah, not a good 24hrs for authors. Awful and upsetting Sad
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2016, 03:18:58 PM »
Quote from: Sibboleth on February 20, 2016, 02:55:49 PM
Yeah, not a good 24hrs for authors. Awful and upsetting Sad

I'm sadly reminded of a James Blish's short story (can't remember it's name) where he formulated a pattern on people representing respective occupations dying "in series".

Quote from: Metis on February 20, 2016, 01:19:41 PM
I still have Foucault's Pendulum unread on my bedside table. It'll be a different thing to start it now.

I was about to start reading Baudolino.
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« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2016, 04:42:49 AM »
Pretty sad Sad I've only read The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery but both were great.
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« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2016, 02:10:16 PM »
RIP, FF.
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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2016, 02:18:22 PM »
Never heard of him before, but as I said elsewhere, his name sounds like it could easily be of an emoviolence band.
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