Foucault's Pendulum

by Umberto Eco

But now 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.

The Graal … is a weight so heavy that creatures in the bondage of sin are unable to move it from its place. —Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, IX, 477

There exists a secret society with branches throughout the world, and its plot is to spread the rumor that a universal plot exists.”