Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . retty conventional, in jacket and tie. Hesaid he kept thirty thousand books in hisapartment in Milan, which looked outover the Castello Sforzesco, on the out-skirts of the old city. Bats roosted in thetowers there, and would flit in throughhis windows on summer evenings. Artificial languages, ancient lan-guages, nonexistent languages, lunaticscience—these, he said, were the fieldsthat interested him, as far as old bookswent. These were passions, not hobbies,and were inseparable from semiotics,which is his academic field. He stillteaches at the Uni
Early speeches of Abraham Lincoln, 1830-1860 . retty conventional, in jacket and tie. Hesaid he kept thirty thousand books in hisapartment in Milan, which looked outover the Castello Sforzesco, on the out-skirts of the old city. Bats roosted in thetowers there, and would flit in throughhis windows on summer evenings. Artificial languages, ancient lan-guages, nonexistent languages, lunaticscience—these, he said, were the fieldsthat interested him, as far as old bookswent. These were passions, not hobbies,and were inseparable from semiotics,which is his academic field. He stillteaches at the University of Bologna, sixhours per week. He explained all thisin stiff, accented paragraphs, wavinghis hands all the while. Semiotics: atthis point, the American journalist willopen the bracket and say, An arcanediscipline which deals with signs andsymbols. Let us just say that it is ageneral philosophy of communication, He didnt really want to talk aboutthe success of his book The Name ofthe Rose, he said, because hed told that llu^U^i^. /Voih! f&OM. -fU0 / Hi -4- 00*Y You gotta love this city, right? story so many times before. St. ThomasAquinas, Aristotle, Joyce, Bach: thosewere his favorite figures in history. Hisfavorite time was the sixteen-hundreds:Europe on the verge of the Enlighten-ment. They didnt wash themselves, so itwould have been a stinky period, he said,but with many fascinating aspects. After his espresso, Dr. Eco put on ablue raincoat and ambled around UnionSquare, looking at the pies for sale in thefarmers market. His pipe trailed furrowsof smoke as he walked on. Absolutely se-cure people are idiots, he said, aproposof nothing in particular, and then, Inse-curity is the key to an honest job. Hehad taught at , most recently in1976, and his son lived in the Village, sothis part of town was home for him inNew York. He talked about Pakistaninewspaper-sellers he knew in the neigh-borhood, and how they were more per-sonable than the news-venders uptown.
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