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Stephan 2022-04-20 09:01:09
Wisdom is shining
I didn't read this book when it was popular in the past, I just knew it was wonderful. I was fortunate enough to watch the movie version today. There are Tom Hanks and Jean Reno I like in the movie. But after reading it, it attracted me even more. What I admired was the wisdom of human beings. The...
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Noah 2022-03-23 09:01:12
Use unverifiable evidence to challenge unverifiable religious beliefs. How great is the Da Vinci Code?
I like religious films very much. It may be different from the native Buddhist culture. I think the Bible stories are very mysterious and full of curiosity. The original work is quite subverting tradition, leading to overwhelming resistance from religious people when the film was released, making...
Jean-Yves Berteloot
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Robert Langdon: The Fibonacci numbers only make sense when they're in order. These are scrambled. If he was trying to reach out, maybe he was doing it in code. Would you hold this, please?
[handing her the black light]
Robert Langdon: This phrase is meaningless. Unless... you assume these letters are out of order, too.
Sophie Neveu: An anagram.
[he scribbles down "cardinal," then scratches it out]
Sophie Neveu: You have eidetic memory?
Robert Langdon: Not quite, but I can pretty much remember what I see.
[scribbling "divine" and scratching it out, too]
Robert Langdon: Whoa. Anagram is right. "O, draconian devil. Oh, lame saint" becomes "Leonardo Da Vinci. The Mona Lisa."
Sophie Neveu: Professor... the Mona Lisa is right over here.
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Robert Langdon: Have you ever heard those words before, Sophie, "so dark the con of man"?
Sophie Neveu: No. Have you?
Robert Langdon: When you were a child, were you aware of any secret gatherings? Anything ritualistic in nature? Meetings your grandfather would have wanted kept secret? Was there ever any talk of something called the Priory of Sion?
Sophie Neveu: The what? Why are you asking these things?
Robert Langdon: The Priory of Sion is a myth. One of the world's oldest and most secret societies with leaders like, uh, Sir Isaac Newton, da Vinci himself. The fleur-de-lis is their crest. They're guardians of a secret they supposedly refer to as "the dark con of man."
Sophie Neveu: But what secret?
Robert Langdon: The Priory of Sion protects the source of God's power on Earth.
