Status Updates From Foucault’s Pendulum

'The literature of memory: he knew himself that it was the last refuge of scoundrels.'

Holy shit... poor Belbo

'The shame of it: here I was with the aging bourgeoisie, waiting for the revolution to subside.'

'"If you alter the Book, you alter the world; if you alter the world, you alter the body. This is what we didn't understand."'

'You have dared to change the text of the romance of the world, and the romance of the world has taken you instead into its coils and involved you in its plot, a plot not of your making.'