But that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow?
Just a little bit more than the Illuminati will allow!
To add something that I meant to mention in my earlier post: at one point Eco casually drops in what was a non-trivial historical discovery.
It’s in chapter 94, amidst the wrangling over the origins of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. As had been known and widely discussed more or less since the emergence of the Protocols, they are not merely ficticious, but much of the material is recycled in an act of plagiarism (though changing the baddies) from an earlier book by Maurice Joly. But in chapter 94 our heroes note that there’s an earlier source: Les Mystères du peuple by Eugène Sue. Joly was himself a plagiarist.
Eco has subsequently discussed this observation that Joly was nicking from Sue in some of his non-fiction, but as far as I know the novel was the first place it was mentioned in print.