Icon Pairing Meme

Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing. Etc. Then write your reaction to each pairing (or a snippet of a hypothetical fic featuring each pairing)


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Irony has no meaning in the Code

I'm on page three thirteen of four hundred and fifty six pages.

Quick! Who can tell me what the plot is? Who is in danger? What will happen if they don't solve the puzzle?

Because I don't know the answers to those questions.

Now that we have that so rightly established lets move on. Chapter seventy seven has Fache discover that Teabag is on his way to England and that he's going to follow. He has one of his men contact the local police to surround the plane at the destination airport because he wants to keep it quiet. You have a potential murderer with at least two hostages and you're not going to call in the big guns on foreign soil and instead call the people who might not know how to deal with it because.... you want them to get away? I'm not following this. Why isn't the SWAT team or equivalent being called in? This is Fache being the idiot policeman again so that the "Heroes" can get away. \~/

While Fache is being a nitwit Langdon and Sophie talk on the plane. Langdon thinks that Grandpa sent him to Sophie so that he could explain why ... she had a rift with her grandfather... no I'm not sure how that works... Why would a perfect stranger know how to heal a rift between two people he's never met before...? \~/

Langdon felt uncertain how to proceed. "The rift between you. The reason you haven't spoken to him in ten years. I think maybe he was hoping I could somehow make that right by explaining what drove you apart."

Sophie squirmed in her seat. "I haven't told you what drove us apart."

Langdon eyed her carefully. "You witnessed a sex rite. Didn't you?"

Of course! Because every fight comes back to sex! Or Sex rites. Yup. That's immediately what I think of when I hear about someone not talking to another person for ten years. Sex. Everything is about sex now a days. Sex. Sex. Sex. Missed your meeting? It was because of a Sex Rite. Cat got run over by a car? Sex rite. Impending apocalypse? Sex rite. Loopy book with so many conflicting conspiracy theories written by a guy who seems to be masturbating over Leonardo DaVinci? Sex rite. \~/ \~/ \~/

Personally if someone said that about me, I'd be thinking "perv" and try to get as far away from him as possible.

But then again, I'm sane.

Sophie on the other hand is amazed that he knows. I would too especially since she never mentioned anything of the sort. Langdon explains how he knows thusly, "Sophie, you told me you witnessed something that convinced you your grandfather was in a secret society. And whatever you saw upset you enough that you haven't spoken to him since. I know a fair amount about secret societies. It doesn't take the brains of Da Vinci to guess what you saw."

What about goats?

I meant sacrifice of goats.

Get your mind out of the gutter people.

That would be equally upsetting to see and has to do with secret societies. Hell lots of things could be upsetting with secret societies that doesn't automatically = sex. World Domination is a good one. Massive amounts of weapons as they plan a coup of the government also fun. Cloning! Or... hundreds of things! It doesn't all lead to sex!

Except if you're Brown. Then every thing leads to sex. \~/

This is what Langdon says Sophie really saw.

Langdon backpedaled. "Well ... yes, in a manner of speaking, but not as we understand it today." He explained that although what she saw probably looked like a sex ritual, Hieros Gamos had nothing to do with eroticism. It was a spiritual act. Historically, intercourse was the act through which male and female experienced God. The ancients believed that the male was spiritually incomplete until he had carnal knowledge of the sacred feminine. Physical union with the female remained the sole means through which man could become spiritually complete and ultimately achieve gnosis - knowledge of the divine. Since the days of Isis, sex rites had been considered man's only bridge from earth to heave. "By communing with woman," Langdon said, "Man could achieve a climactic instant when his mind went totally blank and he could see God."

While vaguely true... the complete and utter assertion that Brown makes here is utterly wrong. \~/ Sex is not the only way to commune with god (and it's interesting to note here that he said God instead of Goddess. I mean I thought all these old time religions worshiped the Goddess and not God) \~/

Blah, blah more sex isn't about sex...but a pathway to God. And then for something COMPLETELY and UTTERLY wrong he says this.

Langdon's Jewish students always looked flabbergasted when he told them that the early Jewish Tradition involved ritualistic sex. In the Temple, no less. Early Jews believed that the Holy of Holies in Solomon's Temple housed not only God but also his powerful Female Equal, Shekinah. Men seeking spiritual wholeness came to the Temple to visit Priestesses or hierodules with whom they would make love and experience the divine through physical union. The Jewish tetragrammation YHWH - the sacred name of God - in fact derived from Jehovah, an androgynous physical union between the masculine Jah and the pre-Hebraic name for Eve, Havah.

Where to begin on this?

1. No women were allowed in the Temple. First or Second. They were certainly not allowed with in the Holy of Holies. Only the Head Priest was allowed there. There was most certainly NOT temple prostitutes. If a man wanted to have sex he would go home to his wife with whom he was obligated to have sex with. \~/ \~/ \~/

2. Ten Commandments: #1 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. The She'ma: Hear O Israel, the Lord is God the Lord is One. ONE. Not Male and Female counterparts. No Female Equal. Just ONE GOD. You don't even need to know how to count past two for this one. Apparently Brown needed an instruction manual. \~/ \~/

And the Lord Sayeth thou Shalt count to One for the Number of Gods you have. Not Two or Three, but One. And thou shalt not Divide God into two for that would be Two Gods and not One. Those that do this shall be considered naughty in my sight and I shall send great terrors to Smite them.

3. YHWH and Jehovah. YHWH is, from my understanding, a transliteration of the letters "Yud Hey Vav Hey" which really wasn't God's name because they'd never write his name. The letters are a sort of place holder that says, "God's Name Here" and we don't even know how to pronounce it and instead say "Adonai". THIRD Jehovah is the Greek or Roman translation of YHWH so it's not even two Hebrew words put together. \~/ \~/ \~/

Ehhheehh... I think I just finished ANOTHER bottle.

However THIS line is utterly brilliantly ironic. Langdon is talking about Tom Crusie's movie Eyes Wide Shut which apparently involves a sex ritual. "Sadly the filmmakers had gotten most of the specifics wrong, but the basic gist was there - a secret society communing to celebrate the magic of a sexual union."

I leave you to your own comments on that.

Meanwhile, Sophie is awed and ashamed that she had stopped talking to her grandfather over such a thing as him having sex with an unknown woman in front of a large group of people all wearing masks and chanting and generally being very weird. Yup. Utterly understandable. \~/

I'm oversexed... so I'm going to bed.

Drinks: 17