> However he did a wonderful job in reaching a very wide audience.
That he did. I was thinking of something after I read it. What if the actual plot of the book, although important, is not the actual message. What if the book itself is a puzzle. A kind of a meta-puzzle, lol, since it contains a puzzle (the plot) inside of it, but it is a greater puzzle in and of itself.
> She just gave us this tape to view in which a bishop is supposed to > knock holes in this whole thing. Haven't watched it yet, but it should prove to be > interesting.
Well, of course they would want to knock holes in it, since if people believe it, that would cost them their jobs...
I have seen "Cracking the Da Vinci Code" in book form (it's partially why I wonder if the book is a meta-puzzle, with the book's plot offering ways to decipher the Larger Puzzle, if you will...
What was amusing about the end of the book was that Langdon kept searching for the grail, when "the grail" was right under his nose the whole time, in the form of Sophie, who turns out to be a Grail Princess (a direct descendant of the Merovingians).
I'm hoping there's not some horrible catholic backlash to this movie in the form of Ratzinger's contingent. There probably will be. These kinds of things have come up before, in the form of the Gnostics and such, and the reaction has always been violent. What really chills me is that people are being told what they can and cannot watch, as if they're little children who don't know better. I'm glad Dave's mom made the decision to see it and decide for herself, even if she disagreed with it - that shows some character and backgone.
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Date: 2006-04-20 12:58 am (UTC)That he did. I was thinking of something after I read it. What if the actual plot of the book, although important, is not the actual message. What if the book itself is a puzzle. A kind of a meta-puzzle, lol, since it contains a puzzle (the plot) inside of it, but it is a greater puzzle in and of itself.
> She just gave us this tape to view in which a bishop is supposed to
> knock holes in this whole thing. Haven't watched it yet, but it should prove to be
> interesting.
Well, of course they would want to knock holes in it, since if people believe it, that would cost them their jobs...
I have seen "Cracking the Da Vinci Code" in book form (it's partially why I wonder if the book is a meta-puzzle, with the book's plot offering ways to decipher the Larger Puzzle, if you will...
What was amusing about the end of the book was that Langdon kept searching for the grail, when "the grail" was right under his nose the whole time, in the form of Sophie, who turns out to be a Grail Princess (a direct descendant of the Merovingians).
I'm hoping there's not some horrible catholic backlash to this movie in the form of Ratzinger's contingent. There probably will be. These kinds of things have come up before, in the form of the Gnostics and such, and the reaction has always been violent. What really chills me is that people are being told what they can and cannot watch, as if they're little children who don't know better. I'm glad Dave's mom made the decision to see it and decide for herself, even if she disagreed with it - that shows some character and backgone.