Status Updates From Foucault’s Pendulum

Its like Dan Brown plus Thomas Pynchon minus songs and dreams and with a couple additional languages

Casaubon, sir, your girlfriend has postpartum and you’re just throwing yourself back into this nonsense after two seconds of clarity? Seriously?

This is a good book full of the most tedious characters imaginable.

Unable to finish. It was not a pleasurable read.

my social media feed is all occult mysticism rn… every time i read a big book i become a character in it

“I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.”

Uuugggghhhhhhhhhhh

“Poor idiot! Are you so foolish as to believe we will openly teach you the greatest and most important of secrets? I assure you that anyone who attempts to study, according to the ordinary and literal sense of their words, what the Hermetic Philosophers write, will soon find himself in the twists of a labyrinth from which he will be unable to escape, having no Ariadne’s thread to lead him out.”

BRASIL

“Do you think there are special places in the universe? On the ceiling of this room, for example? No, nobody would believe that. You need atmosphere. I don’t know, maybe we’re always looking for the right place, maybe it’s within reach, but we don’t recognize it. Maybe, to recognize it, we have to believe it.”

Belbo has got back to never shutting up. Help.

“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.”

hurts

ok this is epic

zzzzzzzzz

I am unsure how committed I am to another 500+ page Umberto Eco academic mystery thriller, but I have read Chapter 1, and it intrigued me. I also have another book of poems on the docket that might take precedence.

Jetzt lese ich zwei Seiten lang, wie begeistert Belbo von Lorenzas Spiel am Flipper ist.
Besonders setzt sie das Schambein ein. Und das können so auch nur Frauen.
Es ist praktisch ein Text im Text.,(Belbos alte Tagebücher)
Ich nehme es als Werkzeug zur Charakterisierung. Oder Ironie .

Well, Belbo finally shut up for now, at least.

i'm not smart enough for this

Ich wechsele jetzt zwischen Buch und Hörbuch. Viel Geschichtswissen, ich werde nicht alles nachschlagen oder googeln. Gleichzeitig jetzt gerade sehr witzig, wie der Erzähler aber wirklich alles auf seine schon gebildete Theorie zurechtzurren möchte. Trotzdem: mühsam!

this is so much fun

Belbo never shuts up.

DELIGHTFUL. MOSTLY DIALOGUE.

Jujurly mulai lieur. There are many explanations on science occultisms and unfortunately I don't fancy them. But I expect them would shape or at least affect the modern day we live, so I carry on. The more interesting parts for me lied on the philosophical dialogue between the characters.

"We live inside a hollow earth, enclosed by the terrestrial surface. Hitler realized this." god how did we get here

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slowly but surely getting through this. theres some scenes and bits of description that are really immersive but its broken up by a lot of slogging through esoteric references that i cba to look up. still going tho bc i am interested to see where it goes, but excited to read normal books after this

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Openingnya mewah sekali.Awalnya diajak berfisika (dan berfilosofi) dg Foucault's Pendulum. Membayangkan Conservatoire de Arts et Metiers di Paris terasa menyenangkan. Benda2 sains dan seni.. kendaraan antik yang megah..

Lalu masuk ke matematisnya ketika harus mencari sebuah password. Berfilosofi lagi ttg kebodohan, kegilaan. Lalu ttg sejarah "the beginning of the end" dari Ksatria Templar. Seruuu !

The Name of The Rose itu favku, dan baru baca dikit serunya dapet banget.

Lucu banget buku ini bikin aku nonton cara kerja Foucault pendulum untuk menentukan rotasi bumi d YouTube wkwk