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Umberto Eco

“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss, but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, must exist according to structures defined at the outset (we have to know whether it is a world where a princess can be restored to life only by the kiss of a prince, or also by that of a witch, and whether the princess's kiss tranforms only frogs into princes or also, for example, armadillos).”

Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose
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Postscript to the Name of the Rose Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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