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"The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly." Eco, Umberto on Modern and Modernism Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>
"The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly."
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"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed." Eco, Umberto on Poetry and Poets Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>
"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed."
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"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear." Eco, Umberto on Courage Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."
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