Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco. It's about a guy who investigates...well, you gotta read it. Let's just say "if you build it, they will come" predates Field of Dreams.
Hey, you keep adding to my reading list faster than I can read them!
But I did come up with this quote from Eco. Scarry as hell...
"Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications." ~ Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco. It's about a guy who investigates...well, you gotta read it. Let's just say "if you build it, they will come" predates Field of Dreams.
Hey, you keep adding to my reading list faster than I can read them!
But I did come up with this quote from Eco. Scarry as hell...
"Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications." ~ Umberto Eco