Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, and she guessed it was the Pendulum's business. A moment later the couple went off -- he, trained on some textbook that had blunted his capacity for wonder, she, inert and insensitive to the thrill of the infinite, both oblivious of the awesomeness of their encounter -- their first and last encounter -- with the One, the Ein-Sof, the Ineffable. How could you fail to kneel down before this altar of certitude? β¨ Foucault's Pendulum. Book by Umberto Eco, 2007.
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- Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. β¨ Umberto Eco (2006). The Island of the Day Before, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. β¨ Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.
- A secret is powerful when it is empty. β¨ Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197. Interviewed with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.theparisreview.org. February 20, 2016.
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