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Silas Flannery
Uzzi Tuzii is a professor specializing in the literature of Cimmeria who attempts to help the Reader and Ludmilla track down a story. Uzzi Tuzii has an ongoing feud with Professor Galligani, who has very different ideas about Cimmerian literature. Although the Reader is initially enthralled with the story that Uzzi Tuzii tells him, paradoxically, as Uzzi Tuzii gets more familiar with the story, it becomes less interesting to hear because he gets bogged down in minor details about the language. Uzzi Tuzii is one of many characters in the novel who represent the dangers of overanalyzing a book, which can take away from the pleasure of a story by making it too complicated to understand.
Uzzi Tuzii Quotes in If on a winter’s night a traveler
The If on a winter’s night a traveler quotes below are all either spoken by Uzzi Tuzii or refer to Uzzi Tuzii. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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“Me? I don’t read books!” Irnerio says.
“What do you read, then?”
“Nothing. I’ve become so accustomed to not reading that I don’t even read what appears before my eyes. It’s not easy: they teach us to read as children, and for the rest of our lives we remain the slaves of all the written stuff they fling in front of us. I may have had to make some effort myself, at first, to learn not to read, but now it comes quite naturally to me. The secret is not refusing to look at the written words. On the contrary, you must look at them, intensely, until they disappear.”
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Chapter 4
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The Cimbro-Cimmerian debate does not seem to affect Ludmilla, now occupied with a single thought: the possibility that the interrupted novel might continue.
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Without fear of wind or vertigo
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“The real revolution will be when women carry arms.”
Chapter 9
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“I don’t understand who you’re accusing, I don’t know anything about your stories. I follow a very clear strategy. The counterpower must infiltrate the mechanisms of power in order to overthrow it.”
“And then reproduce it, identically! It’s no use your camouflaging yourself, Lotaria! If you unbutton one uniform, there’s always another uniform underneath!”
Chapter 11
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The seventh reader interrupts you: “Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.”
You stop for a moment to reflect on these words. Then, in a flash, you decide you want to marry Ludmilla.
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Uzzi Tuzii Quotes in If on a winter’s night a traveler
The If on a winter’s night a traveler quotes below are all either spoken by Uzzi Tuzii or refer to Uzzi Tuzii. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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“Me? I don’t read books!” Irnerio says.
“What do you read, then?”
“Nothing. I’ve become so accustomed to not reading that I don’t even read what appears before my eyes. It’s not easy: they teach us to read as children, and for the rest of our lives we remain the slaves of all the written stuff they fling in front of us. I may have had to make some effort myself, at first, to learn not to read, but now it comes quite naturally to me. The secret is not refusing to look at the written words. On the contrary, you must look at them, intensely, until they disappear.”
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Chapter 4
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The Cimbro-Cimmerian debate does not seem to affect Ludmilla, now occupied with a single thought: the possibility that the interrupted novel might continue.
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Without fear of wind or vertigo
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“The real revolution will be when women carry arms.”
Chapter 9
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“I don’t understand who you’re accusing, I don’t know anything about your stories. I follow a very clear strategy. The counterpower must infiltrate the mechanisms of power in order to overthrow it.”
“And then reproduce it, identically! It’s no use your camouflaging yourself, Lotaria! If you unbutton one uniform, there’s always another uniform underneath!”
Chapter 11
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The seventh reader interrupts you: “Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.”
You stop for a moment to reflect on these words. Then, in a flash, you decide you want to marry Ludmilla.
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