Another of his essays compares the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library to Superman's Fortress of Solitude while describing instances in which "the American imagination demands the real thing and, to attain it, must fabricate the absolute fake"; that essay was originally called (*) "Faith in Fakes".
One of this author's essays includes fragments from an detailed manual for an appliance called the "PZ40" and from a questionnaire asking questions like "Would you rather spend your vacation with an eighty year old leper or Demi Moore?", asserting that the writing of those things is among the title "Remunerative Professions". Another of his essays compares the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library to Superman's Fortress of Solitude while describing instances in which "the American imagination demands the real thing and, to attain it, must fabricate the absolute fake"; that essay was originally called (*) "Faith in Fakes". In the title essay of another of his collections, he described communication difficulties at a hotel causing him to be charged for consuming astronomical amounts of minibar alcohol, which he had actually moved to safely store a certain smoked fish. For 10 points, name this prolific essayist of Travels in Hyperreality and How to Travel with a Salmon, also the author of such novels as Baudolino and The Name of the Rose.
One of this author's essays includes fragments from an detailed manual for an appliance called the "PZ40" and from a questionnaire asking questions like "Would you rather spend your vacation with an eighty year old leper or Demi Moore?", asserting that the writing of those things is among the title "Remunerative Professions".
Umberto Eco