{"id":423,"date":"2019-09-28T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/?p=423"},"modified":"2019-09-28T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T17:07:08","slug":"book-challenge-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Book Challenge, Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Foucault’s Pendulum<\/em><\/a>, by Umberto Eco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days I don’t read as much fiction as I once did. Here’s an exception, Foucault’s Pendulum<\/em> by the Italian writer and semiotician Umberto Eco. He’s probably best known for his novel The Name of the Rose,<\/em> that was made into a movie with Sean Connery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, years ago, I took all summer\nto read this book, digesting it in small amounts each day. The climax takes\nplace in the Pantheon in Paris, and I won’t say more about that, except that, a\nfew years later on a visit to France, I happened into the Pantheon, not\nrealizing it was the same place until, there it was, Foucault’s actual\npendulum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story is about three editors who\nwork for a vanity press that specializes in books promoting occult religious\nconspiracy theories. One night, in a fit of drunken hilarity, they create a\ntheory that explains all the conspiracy theories from the books they’ve edited.\nThen, crazy things start happening. Have they stumbled onto a deeper truth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foucault’s Pendulum, by Umberto Eco. These days I don’t read as much fiction as I once did. Here’s an exception, Foucault’s Pendulum by the Italian writer and semiotician Umberto Eco. He’s probably best known for his novel The Name of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-been-readin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liminalearth.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}