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''Foucault's Pendulum'' is a 1988 novel by [[Umberto Eco]], and a notable work of [[Ancient Conspiracy|conspiracy literature]].▼
| title = Foucault's Pendulum
| original title = Il pendolo di Foucault
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| author = Umberto Eco
| central theme = the deconstruction of the [[Conspiracy Theorist]].
| elevator pitch = Three very bored friends create an [[Ancient Conspiracy]] for shit and giggles, then things go to hell when some external people begin to take their bogus theories way too seriously.
| genre = Secret history
| publication date = 1988
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▲'''''Foucault's Pendulum''''' is a 1988 novel by [[Umberto Eco]], and a notable work of [[Ancient Conspiracy|conspiracy literature]].
While ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'' plays the conspiracy theory view of history completely straight, and ''[[Illuminatus]]!'' subverts it wildly, this novel is an [[Viewers Are Geniuses|elaborate]] and [[Take That|sometimes savage]] [[Deconstruction]].
* Casaubon: Protagonist and narrator. Also an intellectual dilettante and expert on [[The Knights Templar]].
* Belbo: Editor who is haunted by failure and frustrated desires.
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Over Lia's objections, Casaubon and his partners become more and more invested in the Plan they have created, but then unwisely start hinting to Agliè that they possess knowledge he does not. Agliè, Ardenti, and other members of the European occult community decide that they are the ones who are meant to be in control of history, and start chasing after the (completely falsified) secret of the Plan.
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* [[Ancient Conspiracy]] / [[Conspiracy Kitchen Sink]] : Played with [[Serial Escalation]]
* [[Ambiguously Jewish]]: Diotallevi
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