[the_old_crowd] Re.How the HP Books Let Me Down: A Tragic Tale

[Kat Macfarlane]

  > Eileen essayed, and Kirsten echoed,
  > 
  > > > Furthermore, some of our best
  > > > theorists have proved without a doubt that HP is  actually a
  clever
  > > > response to Umberto Eco, and how  can you argue with that?
  > 
  > OK. I can't take it any more. I just can't keep up the pretense - I'm
  been
  > dying to know - and obviously everybody knows but me:
  > 
  > What's Umberto got to do with it??
  > 

  Being as the author is dead, she is not at liberty to explain this or to
  comment on the possibility that yesterday's post contained any
  sanitization of HP fandom, the author included.

  Eileen

Um, er...

About which author are we speaking? It can't be Umberto Eco, because he is a he, and the last time I looked, he was alive and well and traveling with a salmon.

Purrs!

La Gatta

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