I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
- Umberto Eco
Eco's masterpiece, Beauty, is out in paperback next week.
Read a review here.
In the meantime, explore Eco's "polyophony of ideas" in this treat.
Thanks, Johanna.
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