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1) Epic poetry presupposes a professional tradition.
2) 'They put him on the carved bed, and stood singers beside him,' [the same word is used for professional poets]...
3) Everyone can wail in every family, but not everyone can make and sing the dirge.
- Peter Levi
I may have been wrong about this.
- Umberto Eco,
Confessions of a Young Novelist
After I publish a text on semiotics, I devote my time either to recognizing what was wrong or to demonstrating that those who did not understand it in the way I meant were misreading it.
- Umberto Eco
