re: #62 ggt

I made it all the way thru the audio version. I turned off the player and literally felt stoned. Reading Ecco does that to me.

This was the first Eco I have read, although I had heard of the book. I saw the movie “The Name of the Rose” but didn’t connect it with Eco until I picked up the book and read the list of other works.

I was tickled with two main concepts. One, that it has to be “true” because everyone keeps repeating it, such as the theories about the Templars.

And, it has to remain a secret, even if the secret is that there is no secret, because otherwise, no one wants to know the secret.

Two simple observations, but the foundation of so much misunderstanding throughout the ages.