Talk:The Island of the Day Before

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"Firstly a semiotic author"?

Since Umberto Eco is considered firstly a semiotic author, one can argue that he must be read in his own language (as opposed to English) to truly grasp the "signs" he wants the reader to grasp and then to consider the relationships between them.

This is pure opinion, and not even a very well informed one, let alone well-written. Eco is a perfectly capable fiction writer as well as a semiotician, and had he somehow intended regardless to somehow encode messages into the text, he would certainly be capable of doing so with more than the mere syntax of Italian. Next time I stumble across this article, I'm deleting this item of "trivia" (that's the section it's under) unless someone else beats me to it. Chuck Adams (talk) 18:11, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notes for future edits

Here are some quick notes for future edits I plan to make: Casale Monferrato, Taveuni, Orange Dove (Ptilinopus victor), Powder of sympathy, Aristotelian telescope. — Eoghanacht ^talk 14:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia

The "subtle reference" to poisoned books is in the first place a reference to a theme recurring in many stories from the Middle Ages and later. Eco did not invent that himself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dehagido (talk • contribs) 08:54, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 16:03, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"the doppelganger effect"

The link to "doppelganger" in the sentence "through a process reminiscent of the doppelganger effect" doesn't help. It goes to 'doppelganger' but doesn't explain 'doppelganger effect'.--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 01:58, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]