Umberto Eco (1932-2016)

[greygirlbeast]

So, yeah. Eco is dead, too. Maybe it's only an illusion, at this point, only a semblance - the world suddenly casting off some of it's brightest creative lights. Likely, there's nothing statistically significant about the six weeks or so. But it sure seems so.

I was never crazy about Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), but Il pendolo di

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[davesmusictank]

Foucault's Pendulum was a great book.

[ladyblue56]

Starting out the gate on 2016 w. so many significant losses does seem to be something but I don't know what.

The movie To Kill a Mockingbird has such beauty in it, I also forget so much between viewings and then have a pleasant surprise when watching.

Fingers crossed the writing will go as needed for you. Spring is teasing us in the TN valley but gives me hope when I see the green coming out of the ground even if for now it is only weeds.

[martianmooncrab]

Eco's non fiction work was complex, dense and interesting, his fiction traveled the same roads..

[coyotegoth]

To Kill a Mockingbird is the only film I've ever seen where, when I reread the source novel, I automatically hear the characters' voices as the voices of the actors who portrayed them in the film. Needless to say, at least in this case, I'm quite all right with that.

[ext_3285138]

I always find it amusing that Elmer Bernstein was perhaps the only person who went on to be truly successful after having been affiliated with the movie Robot Monster, which ranks among the very worst movies of all time.