it's a subject, like Mechanical Avunculogratulation or
Pylocatabasis. They all fall under the heading of Tetrapyloctomy.'
'What's tetra...?'
'The art of splitting a hair four ways. Mechanical
Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for
greeting uncles.' (74)

introduction

The above quotation seems an apt microcosm of Foucault's Pendulum: at
once amusing, bewildering, ironic, exceedingly intellectual, and eminently
unlikable. Umberto Eco's novel, only released in an English hardcover late last
year, is a second expedition into the novel form by the Italian scholar and
acclaimed author of The Name of the Rose

I tried teading it, and two pages was enough for me. Seems quite a few years ago, when I was
living in Oakton, VA. That would be about ten years ago.