I thought we already had that…
“Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school’s aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
February 8th, 2012 at 7:08 am
Are you currently reading this book?
February 8th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
No. I just stumbled across the quote. Do you have a copy? Have you read it?
February 8th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
It is all gratuitous esotericism and nuanced paranoid conspiracy theories. It makes The Da Vinci Code look like Goodnight Moon or If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. If you are in a reading slump I would stay away from the book. It took me several weeks to get though it. I am mildly interesting in the "General Knowledge" or "Generalities" section of the Dewey Decimal classification as a curiosity. But this was like reading an encyclopedia with characters.
You may borrow it if you want to.