Paranoia

In a house in a dank alley in Paris on March 24, 1897, a 67-year-old man is writing. We do not know who he is. As the Narrator begins his story in Umberto Eco's novel The Prague Cemetery, no one has yet 'been named'.

Even the man himself does not remember who he is. Two days earlier, when he awoke, he knew he was 'Captain Simonini'. But then he discovers other facts: he is Abb Dalla Piccola, "or rather, the person everyone knows as Abb Dalla Piccola."

March 8, 2016

Odi ergo sum. I hate therefore I am.

In a house in a dank alley in Paris on March 24, 1897, a 67-year-old man is writing. We do not know who he is. As the Narrator begins his story in Umberto Eco's novel The Prague Cemetery, no one has yet 'been named'.

Even the man himself does not remember who he is. Two days earlier, when he awoke, he knew he was 'Captain Simonini'. But then he discovers other facts: he is Abb Dalla Piccola, "or rather, the person eve

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