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Learning is not like a coin, which remains physically whole even through the most infamous transactions; it is, rather, like a very handsome dress which is worn out through use and ostentation.

But often the treasures of learning must be defended, not against the simple but, rather, against other learned men.

81 pages in and Eco finally used a language I don't have at least basic comprehension of.

This was not the Adamic language that a happy mankind had spoken, all united by a single tongue from the origin of the world to the Tower of Babel, or one of the languages that arose after the dire event of their division, but precisely the Babelish language of the firat day after the divine chastisement, the language of primeval confusion.

You know you live in a seminary when you feel totally at home when the book takes place in a monastery.

I'm all for calling William of Occam a dope and nominalism a load of hooey.

Damn this book is as nerdy about language as I am.

And things get more mysterious.

This actually reads more like a ghost story than a standard vampire novel as we know them.

There is a lot of atmosphere to this. At the risk of getting yelled at, it reminds me of the descriptions of Louis' plantation in Interview with a Vampire. Both settings add a lot to the story itself.

Found a copy that works. Onward!

Yeah, a lifetime of watching Disney movies tells me that there's no way The Nutcracker and the Four Realms bears any resemblance to this.