“Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“So the film was a kind of lie, because by existing it said: 'Observe the lengths we'll go to for your security. We'll even make you a movie about it.' Style instead of substance, the image instead of the reality”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
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