Contradiction all part of the game

Knowing the sheer quality of my readers, when I (skilfully) drop the name Umberto Eco, I can almost see them nod in recognition.

Eco wrote Foucault’s Pendulum. The Island of the Day Before. The Name of the Rose. Good reads, all of them.

But as an expert in semiotics at the University of Bologna, Eco is also a prolific essayist, and I stumbled across a killer line in one of his recent efforts: “All great narratives produce contradictions.”