'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'

Re:'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' by RyanMcGreal on Monday November 16, 2009 @08:44AM (#944402)

> I was there alone recently, and I felt like a character in a Dan Brown novel.

A subtle nod, given that Brown's novels serve as a kind of poor man's Foucoult's Pendulum.

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Re:'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' by flatline on Monday November 16, 2009 @09:00AM (#944426)

Da Vinci code in particular. I liked this quote better though:

> I like lists for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia. People have their preferences.

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Re:'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' by murr on Monday November 16, 2009 @12:25PM (#944795)

I always thought that Focault's Pendulum was a kind of highbrow Illuminatus! Trilogy

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Re:'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' by eru on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @06:29AM (#946240)

I did not find the Pendulum more highbrow than the Trilogy.

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Re:'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' by limist on Monday November 16, 2009 @09:34PM (#945847)

Eco does not seem to think all that highly of Dan Brown: see this essay on his personal website:

http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/about-god-and-dan-brown.html

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Re:'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' by danteembermage on Monday November 16, 2009 @10:48AM (#944583)

I like that he is almost deferential to him; a huge portion of his readers are Da Vinci Code folks looking for more and I think people are often petty about these sorts of things.

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Re:'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' by mahmud on Monday November 16, 2009 @11:17AM (#944650)

The intersection between Ecco readers and the Dan Brown crowd, imo, is phi.

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Re:'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' by growt on Monday November 16, 2009 @12:56PM (#944871)

Ecco makes shoes btw, so the intersection might be indeed quite small ;)

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Re:'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' by pc on Monday November 16, 2009 @01:55PM (#945002)

They're spelled "Foucault" (ggp) and "Eco".

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Re:'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' by RyanMcGreal on Monday November 16, 2009 @03:17PM (#945202)

> They're spelled "Foucault"

Oops. Now it's too late to edit my comment.

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