I felt like poisoning a monk.
-- Umberto Eco on why he wrote the novel The Name of the Rose.
-- Umberto Eco on why he wrote the novel The Name of the Rose.
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have been sealed up for centuries.
The plot is so complicated that the publisher has packeged...
