Friday, November 13, 2009

A fan of lists ...

... SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco.
The list doesn't destroy culture; it creates it. Wherever you look in cultural history, you will find lists. In fact, there is a dizzying array: lists of saints, armies and medicinal plants, or of treasures and book titles. Think of the nature collections of the 16th century. My novels, by the way, are full of lists.

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  1. And his novels, smugly spilling out such self-satisfied lists, after a time became very tedious. "Here you are reader; here's another bloody list. Who are you to compain? I who am so civilized revel in them."

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