Status Updates From Foucault’s Pendulum

THIS GOT SO CRAZY AT THE END

'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.'

Ці тамплієри, що погубилися по всій Європі, дедалі більше нагадують Monty Python

Ця книга 🔥Титанік зазнає катастрофи в південних морях, один пасажир опиняється на островах коралового рифу( майже екватор). Питання : об що стукнувся Титанік ? Або чому мене бісить постмодерн😆

«Ідіот може навіть одержати Нобелівську премію.»
Може, але цього року Трампу її не дали 😏

«всі мешканці Афін смертні, всі мешканці Пірея смертні, отже, всі мешканці Пірея є мешканцями Афін.» Ух, аж математичну логіку згадала дизʼюнкція та імплікація скажуть, що твердження хибне =0😆Книга топ

Кабала і програмування 🧐 Оце вже цікаво 😁

Фраза « ти прочитав 30 сторінок і не на жарт захопився » більше пасує саме «Маятнику Фуко»😏

dafür dass es um ne verschwörungstheoretiker geht haben die alle zu viel game

I remember buying a mass-market paperback of this at the drugstore in the mid-90s when I was around 13 or 14. I thought the cover looked cool and the title intrigued me (I had recently seen the Foucault Pendulum at the Smithsonian on a family trip to DC). I never got more than 50 pages into it, and reading it now, I’m surprised I got even that far. I’m adoring it this time, but… yeah. It’s dense.

I seriously need to keep an occult encyclopedia nearby while reading. Maybe also an English-French-Portuguese-Italian-Hebrew-Latin Dictionary...

This book gives me headaches fr. I need an occult dictionary to follow along. I need to talk to my crazy, misogynistic landlord more about numerology.

Every time I think I've made really good progress, I've really only read 20 pages.

The last 30 pages or so have been all one long schizophrenic ramble by one character and only briefly and intermittently interrupted by comments from others to remind us that they are in the room. And I really really enjoyed it.

"Every point in the universe is a fixed point: all you have to do is hang Foucault's Pendulum from it"

I always find it delightful when older books rave about new technologies we now take utterly for granted. Here, it’s word processors. How quickly they let you type! How thoroughly you can make your mistakes vanish! How find-replace allows you to magically alter names and places throughout the text! How you can password-protect your writing so nobody else can read it! The occult powers of the UNDO button!

Excellent, slow burn to a fast finish

تو ذاتت کثیفه
چرا هی میکنی پوستتو پاکسازی؟

Very fun, Vonnegutian diatribe there. At first, I was annoyed that the story was paused, but I leaned into it and enjoyed myself. I, too, am a fool, Belbo.

In 30 pages, the name Sam Spade has already been printed here more times than in the actual Maltese Falcon.

Also, Chapter 2 is so much more legible than Chapter 1, and that includes the email with the fake Finnish. So this won't be as bad as I thought.

دریای توهم ساحل ندارد

I feel like the author is expecting me to already be familiar with kabbalah and demonology, and I am very much not

Este libro y yo tenemos cuentas pendientes. Lo intenté en mis veintes, no pude. Ahora vuelvo, ya en mi camino para jubilarme como lector (sólo me faltan dos o tres dragones por matar, este es para mí el más temido.)

"-Elle perd même les manuscrits ?
-Pas plus que les autres. Dans une maison d'édition, tout le monde perd les manuscrits. Je crois que c'est l'activité principale. Je lui reproche seulement de ne pas perdre ceux que, moi, je voudrais qu'elle perde. "

نمیدونم رو چه حسابی تعداد صفحات رو ۳۰۰ تا بیشتر ثبت کردن؟
خیلی خوندنش راحته که توی آپدیت هم کمتر ثبت بشه بدتر حالمون گرفته شه؟

Very dense and taking my time researching everything that is being mentioned.

آقای اکو، مغزتو میبوسم (=^ェ^=)