Foucault's Pendulum

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"As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Three clever book editors inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe decide to have a little fun. Randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entires they think they are creating a long lazy game--until the game starts taking over.... Here is an incredible journey of thought and history memory and fantasy a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco--or indeed anyone--has ever devised.