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Category: Umberto Eco

  • Ways of walking through a wood

    – Re-reading Eddie’s poem “Whose Woods These Are”, I am reminded of what Umberto Eco says in Six Walks in the Fictional Woods:1 There are two ways of walking through a wood. The first is to try one or several…

  • Where does ‘cliché’ come from?

    “How They Met Themselves” (1860-64) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Umberto Eco once wrote, ‘Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.’ But where…