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Re: Realism in the works of Eco

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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:

> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 01:34:32 +0000 (UTC)
> Jane L. Tilton <jane.l.tilton@of.com> wrote:
> 
>> Realism in the works of Eco 

See my countervailing piece, "In Search of the Ur-Pooh" in Zeitschrift
fuer Baer-  Ferkel- und Maultierkunst- und kulturforschung, (Imafa
Kinasso  ed., U. Bamako) in press. ;-)

> Interesting piece but so repetitive I almost wonder if it wasn't
> written by an advanced Lisp routine.
> 
> Ironically, the analysis is written in prose almost as dense as Umberto
> Eco's.  It took me almost a year to get through Name of the Rose, and I
> confess skipping some of the denser, needlessly-wordy stuff.

So, RS, just for comparison with NotR, how did you do with The Baroque
Cycle?

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop

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Realism in the works of Eco Jane L. Tilton <jane.l.tilton@of.com> - 2014-09-22 01:34 +0000
  Re: Realism in the works of Eco RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-22 12:05 +0000
    Re: Realism in the works of Eco Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-09-22 13:44 +0100
      Re: Realism in the works of Eco "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-09-22 12:21 -0500
        Re: Realism in the works of Eco Forsythe <none@example.com> - 2014-09-22 22:05 +0000
    Re: Realism in the works of Eco Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-09-22 23:07 -0300
  Re: Realism in the works of Eco Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-09-22 15:21 +0000
    Re: Realism in the works of Eco Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-09-22 18:03 +0100

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