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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
"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
"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
"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
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear." Eco, Umberto on courage 4 fans of this quote
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."
Eco, Umberto on courage 4 fans of this quote
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