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Originally posted by Malkmus
I'm just pointing out the fact that without Eco's Book, Dan Brown would have probably never had the idea of writing the Da Vinci Code ... that's it 
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...right on the spot here, but it's not about the Pendulum, it's about Semiotics, more precisely about The Name of The Rose, the first novel that Eco wrote as an example of his Semiotics Theory applied in "mundane" books, a nice invention that permits a writer to write for ALL the tastes, the First Lever readers, as Eco teaches, will be happy to read the "crimes and cops" story, but the most elevated readers, those who won't buy Stephen King for instance, have theyr share of art, philosophy, and so on...
