Umberto Eco

[flydhest]

Academic, intellectual, and yet accessible. What a loss.

[joosttx]

Academic, intellectual, and yet accessible. What a loss.

Wow. Such sad news. RIP.

[Jad]

Yes, a loss. But a good voice to have had. RIP.

[paredown]

This makes me sad.

I heard him give a public lecture once--a tour de force--witty, erudite and thought-provoking.

Heaven for him ought to be a great library, with good companions for afternoon tea.

[alexstar]

A shame - one of the great minds of our time. RIP.

[Drmojo]

on a par with Borges and Nabokov

[CNY rider]

My fondest memory of any college course I took was reading The Name of the Rose and discussing and writing about it in a class with an excellent professor.