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From: Tom Cadmus
T1: Cadmust
Date: 3/23/98
Time: 11:57:09 AM
Remote Name: 130.68.21.162
The preface of The Name of the Rose establishes yet another cultural overlay and removal from the tale itself. The manuscript is written from Adso's memory many years after the events he records transpired. Adso is the product of an amalgumation of cultures at the point he is writing. The tale itself is a solution of language and ancient books that are constantly refered to in the text. The manuscript is even published from the notes that the "author" has managed to hold. Those notes were taken from a version of the manuscript two translations removed from the latin the were recorded in. Any text written in the present or past must be read with the knowledge that it must always refer to other books, ideas, and cultural contexts.