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  • Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.

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  • For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

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    Umberto Eco (2012). “On Literature”, p.41, Random House

  • My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.

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    "Novelist Umberto Eco dies at 84; wrote 'Name of the Rose' and 'Foucault's Pendulum'" by Carolyn Kellogg and Jill Leovy, www.latimes.com. February 19, 2016.
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Umberto Eco

  • Born: January 5, 1932
  • Died: February 19, 2016
  • Occupation: Essayist
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