"That was when I saw the Pendulum. The sphere, hanging from a long wire set into the ceiling of the choir, swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty."
- Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"

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"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco, "Foucault’s Pendulum"

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"I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote 'I am that I am,' for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside."
- Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"

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#tbt Foucault’s Pendulum in the #Panthéon, Paris

#UmbertoEco used it as background for his novel with the same name, full of esoteric traditions, conspiracy theories, and of course, murder.

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Dang, if I had kept recording for another minute I would've had film of a peg being knocked over.

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