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  • The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.

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  • Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's aim is to turn out scholars capable of endlessly increasing the number of unnecessary subjects.

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    Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Umberto Eco

  • Born: January 5, 1932
  • Died: February 19, 2016
  • Occupation: Essayist
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