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Bayard and Eco: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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Umberto Eco on How School Helps Us Not to Read Books
02 min 42 secUmberto Eco says that it is impossible for a person to read every important book ever published, but by attending school, we can learn to converse intelligently about important books without having to read them.
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Bayard and Eco: How to Be an Effective Reader of Books
05 min 13 secPierre Bayard explains his system of categorizing his knowledge and opinion of various books, which helps him more thoroughly remember the book he has read.
He believes that a strict dichotomy between read and unread books is not useful because we can so easily forget the details of the books we have read or whether we have read them at all. -
Pierre Bayard Misquotes Oscar Wilde
05 min 23 secPierre Bayard and Umberto Eco discuss issues of quotation, and Bayard recalls a time he thought he was using an Oscar Wilde quote because it was so attributed in another book.
He later found out the Wilde had never spoken those particular words. -
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