It's not done. Before is clearly not worth reading by page 50. He wears his learning too heavily, he lacks wit. But never mind, the Humbert Echo show rolls on. The interviews come and go.
Much work is to be done at the department of semiotics at Bologna.
Eco rolls out of his chair, shakes my hand and ambles off to consult his publicist. It is all such a wonderful, effortless, Post-Modern whiz. Italian without tears. The Blue Suit by Richard Rayner and published by Houghton Mifflin is reviewed in the October 8 Washington Post . Soon after he, too, begins stealing - books.