What does the Hebrew inscription at the beginning of Foucaults Pendulum mean?
“When the Light of the Endless was drawn in the form of a straight line in the Void… it was not drawn and extended immediately downwards, indeed it extended slowly — that is to say, at first the Line of Light began to extend and at the very start of its extension in the secret of the Line it was drawn and shaped into a wheel, perfectly circular all around.” –Gruberger, Philip S. (ed.) The Kabbalah: A Study of the Ten Luminous Emanations from Rabbi Isaac Luria with the Commentaries Sufficient for the Beginner. Vol. II, Jerusalem: Research Center of Kabbalah, 1973. p. 7. (Thanks to Nicholas Lundholm for this.) I love Eco’s novels! What else could you recommend? Eco’s novels are complex works, filled with erudition, allusion, puzzles, conspiracies, and scintillating images. I am often asked to recommend similar novels, which is quite difficult indeed — nothing quite compares with the Professor’s fiction. But if you enjoyed The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, or The Island of t
