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"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882)
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ZIN Product Number: 10029677
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 641 pages
Publisher: Harcourt
ISBN: 0151327653
Release Date: Jan 2, 1997
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
A "student of philology in 1970s Milan, Casaubon is completing a thesis on the Templars, a monastic knighthood disbanded in the 1300s for questionable practices. At Pilades Bar, he meets up with Jacopo Belbo, an editor of obscure texts at Garamond Press. Together with Belbo's colleague Diotallevi, they scrutinize the fantastic theories of a prospective author, Colonel Ardenti, who claims that for seven centuries the Templars have been carrying out a complex scheme of revenge. When Ardenti disappears mysteriously, the three begin using their detailed knowledge of the occult sciences to construct a Plan for the Templars--only to discover too late that the Plan they have invented is in fact real.-- Library Journal
| | | | From The Publisher
"As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance."
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Three clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires, they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over....
Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised.From the Trade Paperback edition.
| | | | Annotation
Three clever editors have spent too much time reviewing crackpot manuscripts. On a lark, the editors begin randomly feeding bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entries. What they believe they are creating is a lazy game--until the game takes over.
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Eco must have an IQ of at least 160.
-- A reviewer, November 16, 2001
Fascinating
-- Matt, September 1, 1999
Also Recommended: A Clockwork Orange -Anthony Burgess Stranger in a Strange Land -Heinlein Atlas Shrugged -Ayn Rand
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
Knights Templar, Illuminati, and a host of other secret orders figure in a novel that is also a dizzying compendium of occult and conspiratorial lore.
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