Umberto Eco OMRI was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor.
I am evoking a heuristic and stereotype of sorts, one where the Buddha presses for clarification on seemingly irrelevant details. The wisdom of the boot in a violent display of aggression shouldn't matter much, or should it? Should the Buddha get the boot?
Berthélemy’s Alexander Cuts the Gordian Knot captures the defiance of complexity—Alexander’s sword, a rising horse, and echoes of Plato converge in a meditation on liberation, heroism, and the fine line between triumph and tragedy.
