Books speak to books?

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19 Writing Conferences in August 2017

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Marc Joan

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Aug 26, 2014
From 'The Name of the Rose' [Umberto Eco]:

"... I had thought that each book spoke of things that lie outside books. Now I realised that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke amongst themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me ... the place of a centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another..."

There are no new stories, perhaps; if that's true, then all stories are distortions or amplifications of, or other variations on, their predecessors. Is that [partly] what Eco means, I wonder?

Anyone else struggling to come up with a 'tale that's never been told'? Is it futile?
 
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