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In one essay, this author claims the “audio-animatronics” of Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean create “a fantasy world more real than reality.” This author relates how a “family size” hotel minibar averted a disaster with a computer system in the essay “How to Travel with a Salmon.” (20[7])In a novel by this author, the password (20[1])“no” is used to log in a computer which generates text about “telluric currents” and is called (20[1])(*) Abulafia. (10[1])Belbo, Diotallevi, (10[2])and (10[1])Casaubon (10[1])use that computer to create “The Plan,” (10[2])a Knights Templar (10[1])conspiracy (10[1])theory, (10[2])in a novel (10[1])by this author. William of Baskerville (10[1])investigates (10[1])monastery murders in a novel (10[1])by this author. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Italian author of Foucault’s Pendulum and The Name of the Rose. ■END■ (10[8])

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