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Umberto Eco

Ars Oblivionalis
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From A Primer for Forgetting, out this month from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. anti-mnemonicsUmberto Eco writes that “once, as a joke, some friends and I invented advertisements for university po­sitions…

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Hello, beautiful
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What we talk about when we talk about beauty

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August 1983

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