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This has been fun… for a while. And now I am praying for it to end. He doesn't care about his reader, does he? Explains his love for Borges I guess..
— Jul 25, 2025 09:37PM
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This is like a once-funny joke that went on for way too long. What am I missing?
— Jul 30, 2025 10:27AM
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Авжеж. Людство не може стерпіти думки, що світ народився випадково, через помилку, лише тому, що чотири безмозкі атоми зіткнулися на мокрому шосе. А тому треба знайти космічну змову, Бога, янголів або дияволів. Синархія виконує ту саму функцію, лише у зменшених масштабах.
— Jul 26, 2025 11:07AM
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Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion? Thus wisdom creates cowards. And thus you miss Opportunity while spending your life on the lookout for it. You have to seize Opportunity instinctively, without knowing at the time that it is the Opportunity.
— Jul 15, 2025 08:58AM
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I firmly believed that an egalitarian society was dawning, but I also thought that the trains, for example, in this better society ought to run better, and the militants around me were not learning how to shovel coal into the furnace, work the switches, or draw up timetables. Somebody had to be ready to operate the trains.
— Jul 07, 2025 12:51PM
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Fans of this book, I have very little idea about what is happening. Is it expected or is this book not for me? Should I dnf or continue?
— Jul 02, 2025 08:28AM
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Jul 25, 2025 10:17PM
Could this be what my annoyance was about? I still can't remember! Maybe.
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Alexandra wrote: "Could this be what my annoyance was about? I still can't remember! Maybe."I wonder if the editor's watchful eye ever saw this text or she would've said, 'dude, the middle sags so much it needs a facelift asap' only for him to ignore her and publish it anyway? :)
Mwanamali wrote: "DNF it"that’s what a smart person would do
I haven't read this one specifically, but from the two I did read, I suspect Eco likes playing silly buggers with his readers.
Elentarri wrote: "I haven't read this one specifically, but from the two I did read, I suspect Eco likes playing silly buggers with his readers."fine with playfulness, less so with huge infodumps about conspiracy theories through the ages, but that's me, not the topic I am interested in without the author's effort to present it in an interesting way, you know?
🙂 I hold this belief that a truly great writer-storyteller can make you interested in anything! Like if someone says to me, 'read this awesome historical fiction about Tudors', I'll say, 'Thanks but I really don't care about them'. Yet somehow Wolf Hall trilogy is the best writing of this century and I adored and cared so much about those books! So this is my goto example of you as a writer making me care about a topic I care not at all!
