Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.
Umberto Ecolibraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands
Umberto EcoI've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
Umberto EcoI seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.
Umberto Eco