There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.


Faith In Fakes (ed. Random House, 2014) - ISBN: 9781473512078

Umberto Eco Quotes

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy;...

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy;...

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy;...

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy;...