Status Updates From Foucault’s Pendulum

la quantité de lore complotiste qu'il faut avoir dépasse de loin mes compétences

1. biblioteka wymieniła okładkę mojego tomu i mnie gaggnął oryginał
2. był żart z sześć siedem, eco doprawdy wyprzedzał swoje czasy

Tried

Finally entering flow state story is getting so good

guys i only just realised this edition has a pendulum on the cover

i am stupid

i have reached the point where he randomly generates the ENTIRE PLOT of the da vinci code

Muy buen principio de historia, me pone en contexto

this makes me so nostalgic for 20 year old me reading this for the first time and becoming a hopeless cynic

bless him

Problem is I’ve read the 1st chapter multiple times but don’t remember until reading so I’m rereading again (argh!) in anticipation of actually continuing this time - it always seems fascinating + a fun read + each time I’ve been distracted by life or other things

So here we are, contemplating the titular pendulum again which always reminds me of the 1 they had in the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. And onward

Restart on this New Year’s Day sitting in an HK Starbucks during a trip for a new China visa

time to find out if this is still my favourite book of all time

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!