It took me 2 decades to read this...

When I worked in France during the summer of 2001, this book was passionately recommended to me by my boss, who had just himself climed this mountain. Now, nearly 20 years later, I myself have finally scaled the peak. I'd say it was worth it. What a book. Over 600 pages and I don't even know if that was half enough to explain everything. I know I only probably caught about 25% of the meanings and references in here. But it was still hard to put down and so well written. Eco really shines in his prose when he is relating vignettes; those really sang out to me in amongst the dense and sometimes impenetrable passages that dove so deeply into metaphysics.

En tout cas: Merci, Laurent.

12/31/20 ETA: I just realized that Eco's pastoral vignettes remind me so much of Borges. So much.