Idle musings

On 26-Feb-2017, I finished reading the book “The Name of the Rose” by Italian author and philosopher Umberto Eco. The ideas expressed in the book have left me marvelling at the wisdom of the author. Just like Tolkien transported me to Middle Earth many years earlier, mentally I was in a medieval monastery in Italy when I read "The Name of the Rose" (henceforth called TNotR in this blog post). Further, the message of the book is just as relevant today as during the setting of the book, which is more than 600 years ago ! My introduction to the book was the movie of the same name, starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater. The movie was shown on a TV channel. The idea of a priest in the 14th century who thinks and acts logically like Sherlock Holmes was a novelty to me. The presence of Sean Connery and the monastic environs of the movie whetted my curiosity. I ended up watching it completely. When the credits rolled at the end of the movie, I saw that there was a book of the s