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"New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing.

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Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian philosopher, semiotician, essayist, literary critic, and novelist, most famous for his novel The Name of the Rose (1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.

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Alternative Names: Umberto Ecco • Umberto Eccounstino • Humberto Eco • Dedalus • Umberto Eko • Oumperto Eko • Eco Umberto • U. Eco

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omnis mundi creatura / quasi liber et pictura / nobis est in speculum

(all the creatures of the world / as a book and a picture / are to us a mirror)

They dwell in my light, while I dwell in unbearable darkness, the source of that light.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

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