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From: Iansito
Date: 11/4/99
Time: 2:27:15 PM
Remote Name: 12.79.10.17
I agree as well, but there are further implications in the "preface" that extend beyond the problems inherent in acquired knowledge. Namely, the problems related to language, truth, and falsehood and how, through texts, these notions are guided by ideological factors. We should keep in mind the often overlooked reference to Soviet troops and the historical events surrounding the "find." Eco seems to be establishing some correlation between text and social discourse and how each perpetuates the other. But all of our ideas have yet to hit upon the distance Eco places between the novel and our period in his final comments in the opening. Does this distance (couched in a somewhat ironic tone) put us closer to the significance between the 14th century and our own? I guess I'm just wondering about the technique used in the final paragraphs. Once you start to unravel this "manuscript" it's easy to get lost! I guess that's the point.