This interview in the German daily der Spiegel with the famous author of Foucault’s Pendulum has this gem:
Eco: The people from the Louvre approached me and asked whether I’d like to curate an exhibition there, and they asked me to come up with a program of events. Just the idea of working in a museum was appealing to me. I was there alone recently, and I felt like a character in a Dan Brown novel.
The irony of Eco commenting on Dan Brown is too wonderful to miss. The article by the way is interesting throughout and Eco has brilliant things to say on the origin of culture and lists.
Edit: Just for the record, I don’t think I could ever say something nearly as nice about Dan Brown.
Ducks and Economics 