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kippurbirdI need new water color paints. This has absolutely nothing to do with the Da Vinci Code, but I thought I'd put that out there. I pulled them out to do a painting and realized well.. half of them are empty. And important colors too. *sighs* Oh well.
On to getting drunk.
The following is not at all sexual. Nope. Not at all.
No. Silas stabbing a large iron shaft to break a covered hole while naked is not at all sexual. Or kinky because it's done in the church. I'm beginning to wonder if Brown has a thing for Silas. The way he keeps on putting the poor man into these descriptions. Which have nothing to do with sex at all. \~/
After breaking the barrier with his might ram, Silas digs around inside until he finds stone tablet. The tablet says, "Job 38:11" Surprisingly Silas doesn't remember what the verse is, but there's a bible. In the church. How surprising.
However, this is another information blockage here. Because now we skip over to the Nun, remember her? She's been watching Silas. She's horrified at seeing his "broad pale back" taunt with the strai... sorry. I'll stop now. I meant his "broad pale back" with all the blood on it. Apparently the Nun works for whoever Grandpa works for. The Priory. That's right. So, she sees Silas and she thinks about how horrible it is what Opus Dei does to its members and that they're searching for the keystone. She then flees to her room and retrieves a sealed envelope with four phone numbers.
Back to Silas! He finds the Verse! He's so excited! It says, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further".
Personally I'm surprised that we actually get to know what the verse is, but I'm supposing that Brown figures that since everyone can look it up on their own, that he doesn't need to hide it. Or it would be useless to hide it. So, he has to break from his formula and actually give the reader the wanted information because he can't trick them here. The information here is already known. He could only stall them for a while, when he went and focused on the Sister. So, he actually has to leave on a legitimate cliffhanger. What is Silas going to do now that he's run into a dead end?
What does he do? I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. Because we're back with Langdon, Sophie and our Security Guard. Security Guard hates Langdon for killing Sauniere. Because we all know that he did it and that Fache would be giving out such sensitive information to the security guards. \~/ . Apparently the single Security guard can't call for back up because electronics don't work very well in there. Which wouldn't be a problem if he didn't go down there by himself. But then again, if he didn't go down there by himself then Sophie and Langdon couldn't escape. \~/
He sees Sophie scanning the floor with her ultraviolet pen and he's all WTF? And she's PTS which is basically CSI (Where's Grissom when you need him?) and she says, that Langdon is innocent and that she's Sauniere's granddaughter, and that the guard should know this. Which he doesn't believe. And apparently he's old enough to remember when Sophie was a little girl so this is an OLD guard that they sent to stop Langdon and Sophie. \~/
In a masterful tactic, somehow knowing that the guard wouldn't shoot her, Sophie checks out another painting in the room. Behind it, was a key. The key that Grandpa said that Sophie could have later. So, now Grandpa has managed to write a note on the Mona Lisa, Hide the key, walk down the hall, write another message, take off his clothes, fold them neatly, draw a circle in his own blood and lay himself out neatly all the while not dripping blood all over the place, before dying. \~/, \~/. But, apparently he couldn't sit still and hold his guts in and wait for security to find him. Right.
So, Sophie uses the painting as a hostage. Basically threatening to punch a hole in it with her knee unless the guard does what she says. Like she'd actually do it. Unfortunately the guard believes her. \~/ And she manages to get the gun and free Langdon.
The painting by the way is called Madonna of the Rocks. Which is an anagram for So Dark the Con of Man and the painting is also full of pagan symbolism. \~/ \~/. The anagrams. They begin to annoy.
Short tonight. But am sleepy.
Nine Drinks.
On to getting drunk.
The following is not at all sexual. Nope. Not at all.
Inside Saint-Sulpice, Silas carried the heavy iron votive candle holder from the altar back toward the obelisk. The shaft would do nicely as a battering ram. Eyeing the gray marble panel that covered the apparent hollow in the floor, he realized that he could not possibly shatter the covering without making a considerable noise.
Iron on marble. It would echo off the vaulted ceilings.
Would the nun hear him? She should be asleep by now. Even so it was a chance Silas preferred not to take. Looking around for a cloth to wrap around the tip of the iron pole, he saw nothing except the altar's linen mantle, which he refused to defile. My cloak, he thought. Knowing he was alone in the great church, Silas untied his cloak and slipped it off his body. As he removed it, he felt a sting as the wool fibers stuck to the fresh wounds on his back.
No. Silas stabbing a large iron shaft to break a covered hole while naked is not at all sexual. Or kinky because it's done in the church. I'm beginning to wonder if Brown has a thing for Silas. The way he keeps on putting the poor man into these descriptions. Which have nothing to do with sex at all. \~/
After breaking the barrier with his might ram, Silas digs around inside until he finds stone tablet. The tablet says, "Job 38:11" Surprisingly Silas doesn't remember what the verse is, but there's a bible. In the church. How surprising.
However, this is another information blockage here. Because now we skip over to the Nun, remember her? She's been watching Silas. She's horrified at seeing his "broad pale back" taunt with the strai... sorry. I'll stop now. I meant his "broad pale back" with all the blood on it. Apparently the Nun works for whoever Grandpa works for. The Priory. That's right. So, she sees Silas and she thinks about how horrible it is what Opus Dei does to its members and that they're searching for the keystone. She then flees to her room and retrieves a sealed envelope with four phone numbers.
Back to Silas! He finds the Verse! He's so excited! It says, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further".
Personally I'm surprised that we actually get to know what the verse is, but I'm supposing that Brown figures that since everyone can look it up on their own, that he doesn't need to hide it. Or it would be useless to hide it. So, he has to break from his formula and actually give the reader the wanted information because he can't trick them here. The information here is already known. He could only stall them for a while, when he went and focused on the Sister. So, he actually has to leave on a legitimate cliffhanger. What is Silas going to do now that he's run into a dead end?
What does he do? I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. Because we're back with Langdon, Sophie and our Security Guard. Security Guard hates Langdon for killing Sauniere. Because we all know that he did it and that Fache would be giving out such sensitive information to the security guards. \~/ . Apparently the single Security guard can't call for back up because electronics don't work very well in there. Which wouldn't be a problem if he didn't go down there by himself. But then again, if he didn't go down there by himself then Sophie and Langdon couldn't escape. \~/
He sees Sophie scanning the floor with her ultraviolet pen and he's all WTF? And she's PTS which is basically CSI (Where's Grissom when you need him?) and she says, that Langdon is innocent and that she's Sauniere's granddaughter, and that the guard should know this. Which he doesn't believe. And apparently he's old enough to remember when Sophie was a little girl so this is an OLD guard that they sent to stop Langdon and Sophie. \~/
In a masterful tactic, somehow knowing that the guard wouldn't shoot her, Sophie checks out another painting in the room. Behind it, was a key. The key that Grandpa said that Sophie could have later. So, now Grandpa has managed to write a note on the Mona Lisa, Hide the key, walk down the hall, write another message, take off his clothes, fold them neatly, draw a circle in his own blood and lay himself out neatly all the while not dripping blood all over the place, before dying. \~/, \~/. But, apparently he couldn't sit still and hold his guts in and wait for security to find him. Right.
So, Sophie uses the painting as a hostage. Basically threatening to punch a hole in it with her knee unless the guard does what she says. Like she'd actually do it. Unfortunately the guard believes her. \~/ And she manages to get the gun and free Langdon.
The painting by the way is called Madonna of the Rocks. Which is an anagram for So Dark the Con of Man and the painting is also full of pagan symbolism. \~/ \~/. The anagrams. They begin to annoy.
Short tonight. But am sleepy.
Nine Drinks.
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You missed two!
Date: 2007-09-24 09:01 am (UTC)Mistake #1: Job 38:11 reads "And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?"
However that is the American Standard Version, and I don't think a Catholic Church in Paris would use that. The Catholics would prefer any of the: (New) Revised Standard Version, the Douay-Rheims edition, or the New Jerusalem Bible (since they're outside the US).
So not only does he chop the verse in half, he also uses the wrong bible version.
BTW do you think that there's an anagram involved here?
Mistake #2: The painting is called Virgin on the Rocks NOT Madonna on the rocks. Moreover read that link, go to the bottom, where they mention the size of the painting and the type!
I'll spare you the trouble: oil on wood, 189.5 x 120 cm. Plus it has a heavy wooden frame. Oil on wood and it's over 6'3" high...
Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble lugging that one around, and unless you're a martial arts champion you're not punching a hole in it.
Re: You missed two!
Date: 2007-09-24 02:55 pm (UTC)Quand je dis: Tu viendras jusqu'ici, tu n'iras pas au delà; Ici s'arrêtera l'orgueil de tes flots?
If there's some sort of anagram or precise wording I want to be the first to show why it's bunkum :)
Re: You missed two!
Date: 2007-09-24 04:04 pm (UTC)Re: You missed two!
Date: 2007-09-24 04:34 pm (UTC)As for why they think so? Because he said bad things about the church and people want to believe them.
Re: You missed two!
Date: 2007-09-24 04:42 pm (UTC)My knowledge of the Bible is very shaky. Especially when it comes to Christian Text versions. I didn't catch it because I didn't realize it was one.
BTW do you think that there's an anagram involved here?
Brown only knows.
I'll spare you the trouble: oil on wood, 189.5 x 120 cm. Plus it has a heavy wooden frame. Oil on wood and it's over 6'3" high...
Okay, I should have caught that one. Note to self, check paintings.
Re: You missed two!
Date: 2007-09-24 09:02 pm (UTC)Man. I think the guy didn’t bother with a second of research.
But we knew that already. ;)
Re: You missed two!
Date: 2007-09-25 03:53 am (UTC)Except for the part where that "experiment" is impossible to perform, because the whole point of it is that observation effects the observed. It's more of an intellectual exercise or model. And not even a particularly good one, since it turns out that the "measurements" required to collapse a probability don't really have to be taken by a sentient observer.
I'll stop now.
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Date: 2007-09-24 01:31 pm (UTC)Ha. Even I thought that was sexual! *shakes head at Brown*
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Date: 2007-09-24 04:43 pm (UTC)>.>
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Date: 2007-09-24 04:16 pm (UTC)Eheeeheeeh... >.>
Date: 2007-09-24 04:37 pm (UTC)Re: Eheeeheeeh... >.>
Date: 2007-09-24 04:42 pm (UTC)omg O_O this is made of win.
Re: Eheeeheeeh... >.>
Date: 2007-09-24 04:45 pm (UTC)You realize I couldn't let your statement go like that.
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Date: 2007-09-24 04:20 pm (UTC)Also I'm starting to wonder how effective Silas is as a villian since he seems to move so slowly and be rather lacking in decision making abilities.
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Date: 2007-09-24 04:45 pm (UTC)Not only that, but he's not even threating our heroes.
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Date: 2007-09-24 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-27 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-27 03:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-24 04:41 pm (UTC)*pouts*
*friends*
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Date: 2007-09-24 05:10 pm (UTC)*Also, generally speaking if you think you are an aspie, you probably are*
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Date: 2007-09-24 05:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-24 08:56 pm (UTC)