Umberto Eco passed away last night

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    I'm very sad today because I saw in the news that Umberco Eco had died last night. I loved that writer very much as each of his novels were meaningful, thoughtful and thorough on many grounds.

    Even his name was meaningful:

    Source : Eco’s grandfather claims to be a foundling, and that he was given the name Eco by “an inventive civil servant.” Supposedly the name is an acronym for Ex Caelis Oblatus, or “offered by the heavens.”
     
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    He was great.
    But it could happen to everyone.
     
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    What ? To be great or to die ? :p

    Ça arrive à tout le monde ! De quoi, d'être génial ou de mourir ?
     
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    I also heard that Harper Lee has passed away. She was the author of "To Kill A Mockingbird."
     
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    To die, it could happen to every one. But I hope not for me, my religion forbid it.
     
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    I hope that your religion won't forbid you to be great... or to keep being so... ;)
     
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    Certainly the sting of death is a terrible thing!!!
     
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    Oh, I was great for my wife when she was my fiancée, and I was great for my son when he was 5 o 10 years old, now he is 18, don't think he always thinks his father is a great man! I am surely great for my 14 years old daughter though she always want to be with me. When she comes back from school she asks me to go for a walk with her, and she makes me a lot of questions. But how will be in a year?
    We are getting old. Surely I will be again a great man for everybody when I am dead!

    You know what they say:

    At five years: Daddy knows everything!
    At ten years: Daddy knows almost everything!
    at fifteen years: Daddy does not know nothing!
    At thirty-five years: I have to ask for an advice from dad.
    At fifty-five years: If only I still had my dad!
     
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