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 [The Great Swifty Speaketh!] Swifty Has Some Things To Say To Aspiring Writers And Artists.: You don't necessarily have to enjoy them as much as you enjoy what you usually like to read, you probably won't either at first (after reading Umberto Eco's Name of The Rose, reading Neal Gaiman's much simpler American Gods was a relief for me). But I think if you want to be a writer, the more you read, the better you'll get, and even better if you don't limit yourself only to popular literature, or just one genre.

 [The Big Tent Blog] Proof for the existence of a wrathful God...: Most disturbing (remarkable?) in all of this is how Umbert's mom got shells, sand, fresh water, 15 fish (even one of those ultra-poisonous puffer fish!), a castle, and some seaweed into her good Christian vagina without harming her fetus at all:

[ThirdAge Blog] Death of the Un-Bulleted Sentence: R.I.P.: "What else you got?" he said. "I’ve gone through... but not UmbertoEco. My Middlemarch was thick with dust. This scares me. The publishing industry, I... for the next night.

[Biblioblog.com] BiblioBlog: Baudolino by Umberto Eco: Baudolino by Umberto Eco: I feel like such a failure. Perhaps it just wasn’t my cup of tea or maybe I’ve read too many other books that don’t require as .

[Blogcritics.org] Blogcritics.org: Umberto Eco Revisits His Adolescence: Originally published in Italy last year, we revisit the experiences of Eco and his contemporaries as they grew up in Italy following the rise of fascism and through World War II. While perhaps appealing to those with an interest in that aspect of Italian history and culture, a significant portion of the references and allusions are obscure to an American reader.

[Metatalk.metafilter.com] MetaTalk | Community Weblog: Rather, he's comparing the pervasiveness of God in pantheism to the pervasiveness of the State in totalitarianism (not authoritarianism, as Target Practice said off-handedly as he de-railed the Blue thread). By taking the excerpt as it is, you're assuming Gragnola's point about God being a Fascist is predicated on him being everywhere, per the sentence which precedes it...but Eco's character was not forging that logical chain.

[Direland.typepad.com] DIRELAND: Umberto Eco on THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND FASCISM: Among those Ten Commandments are four, think about it, only four, that promote good things””and even those, well, let’s review them. Don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t bear false witness, and don’t covet your neighbor’s wife.

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