I think I need a Sephiroth icon.

[rei_c]

I have a longish post I'd like to write about creation, Foucault's Pendulum, Kabbalah, A Riotous Invasion, and my current mental/emotional/spiritual place. Obviously it's not yet written or I'd be posting that instead of this, so in lieu, have two quotes from Eco

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[flinchflower]

*wonders if you're available to date*

[rei_c]

*Is totally available.*

[musesfool]

Foucault's Pendulum is one of my all-time favorite books.

[rei_c]

Every time I read it, I get something new that's usually earth-shattering to me. It's a miracle-book like that.

[roundegotrip]

How have I never heard of this book before?!?

[rei_c]

I don't know! What about The Name of the Rose, which is his other really ultra famous book?

Seriously, you need to read both. *Firm nod*

[roundegotrip]

Nope, never. Really ultra famous, eh? Hmmmmm. You don't suppose there could have been some mystical, archaic conspiracy to keep me from reading these books before a certain point in time...

[rei_c]

Well, ultra famous in, er, lit-crit-theory circles, I guess. It's not often where a very good theorist (in terms of both theory and readability) is also a tremendous novelist, and Eco is tops in both.

There could very well have been some mystical, archaic conspiracy. This is, like, the tenth or thirteenth time I've read Foucault's Pendulum, and while I enjoyed it the previous times and went away with ideas and thoughts and feelings, for some reason it seems to be sinking in even more and even better this time 'round. I think that has a lot to do with that longish post I haven't written yet, but. Yes. Read Foucault and see what you think.

(The other one, Name of the Rose, is much more of a murder mystery set back in the medieval era (Eco's specialty time period). Still good, but I've always liked Foucault better.)