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Foucault's Pendulum

Umberto Eco

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format: book

genre: mystery fiction

subjects: 0cul; 0com; 0con;

summary:

Three clever editors(who have spent altogether too much time reviewing crackpot manuscripts on the occult by fanatics and dilettantes)decide to have a little fun. They are inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years before from a suspiciously natty colonel, who claimed to know of a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy. On a lark, the editors begin randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entries. What they believe they are creating is a long, lazy game--until the game starts taking over...
publisher: Ballantine

language: English

branch: Langhorne

OJPL id #: 10073

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