Ah! Magnificent line. Is it only me, or do you guys also think that Eco is also hinting at how his novel becomes a sifting through different narratives and bizarre happenings, the way the characters do in the labyrinth-library in the novel? Which, of course, comes to represent the Freudian techniques of interpretation of dreams...is a literary work, ultimately, the same as a dream then? What do you guys think?

"He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life."
The moment of liberation at the end.