In which, though the chapter is short, old Alinardo says very interesting things about the labyrinth and about the way to enter it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
It doesn’t say much, but it teaches you something important: these summaries will provide commentary in addition to the summary. Here’s another:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In which the labyrinth is finally broached, and the intruders have strange visions and, as happens in labyrinths, lose their way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
If these were just summaries it shouldn’t provide commentary on the length of the chapter or how “interesting” a certain conversation is or remark “as happens in labyrinths.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I grew to love these summaries as much as the chapters themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Name of the Rose Final Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I’m not sure what else to say. I’m excited to re-read this. I think it will be as exciting as the first time through as I catch more and more references and understand the themes better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I must caution that this is absolutely not for everyone, but if you find any of this post interesting, I can’t recommend this book enough. It is brilliant and well-deserved of the praise it has received over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I even got a copy of Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum<\/em> to read soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today we’ll dive into my thoughts on Umberto Eco’s masterpiece novel The Name of the Rose. The Reputation of the Name of the Rose I’m honestly a bit shocked at how resistant I’ve been to this book the whole year. I knew it would be “hard,” so I kept putting it off. But I love … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amindformadness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/eco-name-of-the-rose.jpg?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11892,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions\/11892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}