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Eco used fog as an analogy and refers to it frequently in this piece. Interestingly I began to feel that I was in a fog midway through when Eco gets longwinded. Queen Loana is a good story if not a great one. I enjoyed but sometimes grew weary of the literary and cultural references, in which seems to be one purpose of the book: showcasing the common culture of Eco’s generation of Italians who grew up under Fascism. This book begs for annotation as it seems to be 75% references and 25% plot. Th
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