By Umberto Eco

Satirical essays within which Eco pokes enjoyable on the oversophisticated, the overacademic, and the overintellectual and makes penetrating reviews approximately our sleek mass tradition and the elitist avant-garde. “A scintillating selection of writings” (Los Angeles Times). Translated via William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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You, who have constantly before your pupil the filiform and confused curtain of the hairs of your brow, which descend to protect the almond-shaped eyeball, and, farther, as if in perspective, the imper­ ceptibly vibrating long whiskers, now suddenly and obliquely see beneath your nose a red and wrinkled mobile surface, a brighter red than the red of the mass that rests on the rectangle. Now you lick your whiskers at the lure of the large reddish mass ; now the reddish mass, prompted 48 Esquisse d'un nouveau chat by your gaze, lets fall drops of humoral liquid on the crinkly yellow sheet; now both you and the reddish mass participate in a reciprocal attraction.

He's left-wing, true enough. Everybody's to the left, to hear them talk. But do you think he'd accept-for example­ the uncertainty principle? "If you like, you can es­ tablish the position of an electron, its energy, and even the year of its birth ! " Doesn't he realize that for others it's not so easy? " You get it? This may all seem nonsense to you. The Earth goes ahead on its own, anyway; these characters quarrel among themselves, but nobody lays a finger on Earth for fear somebody else will want to get into the act.

Yes, the one that extends all over the universe. What the Choirs want to be seen, what the Archangelic Union passes off as the Blessed Vision, that's all they see ! The rest is fog. I tell you, they treat us like children. And He knows nothing about it. He thinks of Himself thinking and therefore believes everything is fine. So they won't touch the Aristotelian model ; they flatter Him with the story of the First Cause, of absolute transcendence, and they keep everything from Him. Mind you, I'm not some kind of pantheist weirdo.

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