"If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time
on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more
a person knows, the more things have gone wrong."
— Eco, Umberto. Numero Zero (p. 9). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.
"All this notwithstanding, I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing
a book that would bring me fame and fortune. To learn how to become a great
writer, I became what in the last century was called the nègre (or ghostwriter,
as they say today, to be politically correct) for an author of detective stories who
gave himself an American name to improve sales, like the actors in spaghetti
westerns. But I enjoyed working in the shadows, hidden behind a double veil
(the Other’s and the Other’s other name)."
— Eco, Umberto. Numero Zero (pp. 9-10). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.
How's this for a double veil, Umberto? —
Boeing/Being Meets the Flying Spaghetti Monster . . .
