Foucault’s Pendulum — Umberto Eco

Before Foucault’s Pendulum, we did not have the book that predicts the twenty-first century’s conspiracy culture. After it, we did, and nobody noticed, because Umberto Eco buried the prediction inside six hundred pages of medieval occult history, Kabbalistic digression, Jesuit-versus-Mason institutional rivalry, and a plot that a reader cannot follow without taking notes. This is […]