Foucault's Pendulum（ISBN=9780156032971）

　　Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled--a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault's Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.
　　Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.

　　Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose, an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. His 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum has been described as a "thinking person's Da Vinci Code". Eco is President of the Scuola Super　　iore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna. He has also written academic texts, children’s books and many essays. Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont. His father, Giulio, was an accountant before the government called upon him to serve in three wars. During World War II, Umberto and his mother, Giovanna, moved to a small village in the Piedmontese mountainside. Eco received a Salesian education, and he has made references to the order and its founder in his works and interviews. His family name is supposedly an acronym of ex caelis oblatus (Latin: a gift from the heavens), which was given to his grandfather (a foundling) by a city official. His father was the son of a family with thirteen children, and urged Umberto to become a lawyer, but he entered the University of Turin in order to take up medieval philosophy and literature, writing his thesis on Thomas Aquinas and earning his BA in philosophy in 1954. During this time, Eco left the Roman Catholic Church after a crisis of faith. After this, Eco worked as a cultural editor for the state broadcasting station Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) and also lectured at the University of Turin (1956–64). A group of avant-garde artists—painters, musicians, writers—whom he had befriended at RAI (Gruppo 63) became an important and influential component in Eco's future writing career. This was especially true after the publication of his first book in 1956, Il problema estetico di San Tommaso, which was an extension of his doctoral thesis. This also marked the beginning of his lecturing career at his alma mater. In September 1962, he married Renate Ramge, a German art teacher with whom he has a son and a daughter. He divides his time between an apartment in Milan and a vacation house near Rimini.

KETER
　1. When the light of the infinite
　2. Wee haue divers curious Clocks
HOKHMAH
　3. In hanc utilitatem clementes angeli
　4. He who attempts to penetrate into the Rose Garden
　5. And begin by combining this name
　6. Juda Le6n se dio a permutaciones
BINAH
　7. Do not expect too much of the end of the world
　8. Having come from the light and from the gods
　9. In his right hand he held a golden trumpet
　10. And finally nothing is cabalistically inferred
　11. His sterility was infinite
　12. Sub umbra alarum tuarum
　13. Li frere, li mestre du Temple
　14. He, if asked, would also confess to killing Our Lord
　15. I will go and fetch you help from the Comte d'Anjou
　16. He had been in the order only nine months
　17. And thus did the knights of the Temple vanish
　18. A mass terrifyingly riddled with fissures and caverns
　19. The Order has never ceased to exist, not for a moment
　2o. Invisible center, the sovereign who must reawaken
　21. The Graal... is a weight so heavy
　22. The knights wanted to face no further questions
HESED
　23. The analogy of opposites
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MALKHUT