Decode me, I'm falling asleep.

[kippurbird]

And we're back to Fache. Fache wants to know why Sophie isn't answering. Bobo wants to know what Crypto have to say. Apparently the same thing as Sophie... but! They didn't send Sophie. Also we learn that Fache now knows that Sauniere and Sophie are related. Bobo starts to actually think on a reasonable track, that Sauniere wanted Sophie in on the investigation and that the rest of the message must have been meant for her.

Then Langdon jumps out a window.

Fache runs out to the men's bathroom as Bobo talks to him on the radio telling him that Langdon jumped and isn't moving. Then he's gotten up. He's moving faster and faster and faster. And is probably in a car. Fache, upon entering the bathroom looks out the window and sees a truck leaving, supposing that Langdon jumped into that.

Meanwhile, Langdon apparently did not jump. He's hiding, unwillingly with Sophie. He didn't want to run from the crime scene. Intelligent of him, yes? So, instead of marching to the police and saying that there's this deranged woman trying to make him flee, he gives Sophie the tracking device. Which she tosses out the window and yes, well see above.

Now, with the fire alarm silenced, Langdon could hear the sounds of the DCPJ sirens tearing way from the Louvre. A police exodus. Fache had hurried off as well, leaving the Grand Gallery deserted.

"There's an emergency stairwell about fifty meters back into the Grand Gallery," Sophie said. "Now that the guards are leaving the perimeter, we can get out here."

Langdon decided not to say another word all evening. Sophie Neveu was clearly a hell of a lot smarter than he was.

A few paragraphs ago Langdon didn't want to leave the crime scene. Now he's going along willingly. Behold the power of Perky Tits! They make you change your mind without you even realizing that you have! We don't know why Langdon changed his mind from not fleeing to fleeing. He just does. She hasn't given him any good reason to believe her. He just follows her around like a puppy. \~/

And then we skip to Silas. Silas is getting a tour of the Saint Sulpice church. Brown asserts that it "has the most eccentric history of any building in Paris. Built over the ruins of an ancient temple to the Egyptian goddess Isis... The sanctuary has played host to the baptisms of the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire, as well as the marriage of Victor Hugo. The attached seminary has a well documented history of unorthodoxy and was once the clandestine meeting hall for numerous secret societies."

Now then. The previous statements are utterly wrong. There was no ancient temple to the Egyptian goddess Isis. I don't think that the ancient French had any contact with Egypt. They were too busy being barbarians. The bits about people are correct. The next part is utterly ridiculous. So, that's two facts utterly wrong which makes four drinks. \~/, \~/, \~/
\~/. Yet, all of these are supposed to be true! According to the beginning of the book. Which is a damn lie. But it sounds good.

And, after all, if we remember earlier, there was talk about pagan and goddess symbols in Christian imagery. It makes sense, if the church was built on the site of an ancient temple to a goddess that the people devoted to a goddess would bury their keystone there. Therefor the church, to have meaning in this whole game of riddles has to have some sort of connection to a goddess...even if Brown has to make it up. Because this the entire point of the book.

In any case, Silas goes into the church. The nun tries to take him for a tour. He says he wants to pray. And she leaves him.

In three chapters what has happened now? Silas finally gets from outside the church to inside the church. Langdon and Sophie start to leave.

Apparently there is danger. But the dangerous guy, Silas, is currently no where near our intrepid duo so we don't feel like they need to rush least they get caught. The police aren't a threat because they're obviously incompetent. Everyone knows that. So.., there's no real tension going on. Everyone is just waddling about in their short little chapters. So much could be cut or rearranged to make the scenes more tense. I mean, they've been stuck in the Museum for like ten chapters now. And haven't even barely begun to escape.

I'm utterly bored wondering when the story is going to start. At least Eragon didn't take this long to get things going.

Oh, for shits and giggles, a line from later in the book: "Walt Disney had made it his quitet life's work to pass on the Grail story to future generations"

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Yes. there was a fantastic bit about the Little Mermaid and how she was Mary Magdalene or something.

So, following along that metaphor, Eric is... Jesus... and... King Tritan is... God the Father... and... uh... Ursula is the Devil? Who captures Mary Magdelene's voice? Until Jesus kisses her?

Is Sebastian St. Paul or something?