“It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.”

—  Umberto Eco , book The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

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Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic… 1932–2016

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