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* ''Ur-Fascism'', an essay first published in the ''New York Review of Books'' in 1995, exploring the qualities of fascism, producing a list of 14 attributes common to fascist movements, and even recounting his own boyhood in UsefulNotes/FascistItaly.
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: Could be the case with Eco and occultism. While he savagely criticizes the occultists and conspiracy theorists, he himself shows interest and expert knowledge in such matters (most of his works feature this to some extent, especially Foucault's Pendulum).
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: Could be the case with Eco and occultism. While he savagely criticizes the occultists and conspiracy theorists, he himself shows interest and expert knowledge in such matters (most of his works feature this to some extent, especially Foucault's Pendulum). Though it could also be like the case of an atheist studying religion: Just because you know a lot about a subject, doesn't necessarily mean you believe it.
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* HowIWroteThisArticleArticle: He had a column in the Italian news magazine ''L'espresso'' where he once wrote an article about how he can't think of anything to write about, but the space needs to be filled, so he's now writing this article about how he can't think of anything.
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Because of his background, his works tend to avoid SmallReferencePools and ViewersAreMorons--only to go right through to the other side, invoking ViewersAreGeniuses instead. His novels abound in [[BilingualBonus language games]], [[ShownTheirWork meticulously researched]] history and more than a little philosophizing. Basically, he's the polar opposite of Creator/DanBrown: a knowledgeable and skillful writer whose fiction is well researched, and full of genuine historical, narrative, and cultural intrigue, but who never [[DanBrowned pretends that his novels are anything more]] than stimulating intellectual entertainment. In fact, he once humorously mused, in [[http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5856/the-art-of-fiction-no-197-pauleacute-baacutertoacuten The Paris Review]], that Dan Brown might as well have stepped out the pages of his book ''Foucault's Pendulum''.
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Because of his background, his works tend to avoid SmallReferencePools and ViewersAreMorons--only to go right through to the other side, invoking ViewersAreGeniuses instead. His novels abound in [[BilingualBonus language games]], [[ShownTheirWork meticulously researched]] history and more than a little philosophizing. Basically, he's the polar opposite of Creator/DanBrown: a knowledgeable and skillful writer whose fiction is well researched, and full of genuine historical, narrative, and cultural intrigue, but who never [[DanBrowned [[FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy pretends that his novels are anything more]] than stimulating intellectual entertainment. In fact, he once humorously mused, in [[http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5856/the-art-of-fiction-no-197-pauleacute-baacutertoacuten The Paris Review]], that Dan Brown might as well have stepped out the pages of his book ''Foucault's Pendulum''.
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He listed {{Western}} tropes in a 1975 comic essay "How to Play Indians". He also wrote an essay in 1984 about tropes called "Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage", which ends with what might as well have been to a reference to Wiki/TVTropes, describing a possible future in which [[ViewersAreGeniuses viewers and artists]] are all equally aware of the universe of tropes and spend their time recognizing them and using them to communicate.[[note]]Après nous, le déluge.[[/note]]
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He listed {{Western}} tropes in a 1975 comic essay "How to Play Indians". He also wrote an essay in 1984 about tropes called "Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage", which ends with what might as well have been to a reference to Wiki/TVTropes, Website/TVTropes, describing a possible future in which [[ViewersAreGeniuses viewers and artists]] are all equally aware of the universe of tropes and spend their time recognizing them and using them to communicate.[[note]]Après nous, le déluge.[[/note]]
