A before work drink with the code.
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kippurbirdHeroes. Mmmmmm........ yummy.
Chapter thirty one, Sylar eats the Nun's brains learning the location of the keystone. Wait... no... that's not right. He can't do that. Right.
Chapter thirty one, the Nun calls up four people and tries to get in touch with them Three people she calls she gets a hysterical widow, a detective at a murder scene and a priest. These are apparently the three other people Silas killed before going to grandpa. Silas has been busy. And yet there's no APB out for creepy albino dude. There has to have been a witness or something. I mean he's obviously killed three people - four people- in one night. No one has put any connections to this yet. Okay, perhaps the fact that the four people were connected might not be there, but really, Silas should have been mentioned at least once or twice. Which would clear up Langdon right quick. Wait, sorry, being logical again. We can't have Langdon cleared because then he couldn't be a fugitive which means that he can't run around worrying about getting caught which would then amp up any tension. Right. \~/
Silas discovers the Nun as she's making a plaintive call on the answering machine of the top guy (grandpa). He is a gog that she's part of it and demands to know where the keystone is. She tells him she doesn't know. Others knew. And that Opus Dei will never get it.
Silas kills her. \~/ Such a nice man of God he is.
Back to Sophie and Robert. They make it out to her car which is a "SmartCar" which gets 100 kilometers to the liter. Which is pretty good. A kilometer is about 62 miles. A liter is about .30 gallons. Which is about 236 miles on a gallon. My car takes about eight - ten gallons. Which is about at max 2360 miles on a full tank. I'd only have to fill up every three months or so. Wow. I want. \~/
The two of them bolt out of there as Brown switches between kilometers and miles. \~/ And Langdon starts to think about the Madonna on the Rocks. Apparently there's another painting called the Virgin on the Rocks which is practically the same.
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Now, I'm fairly certain that there has to be something wrong there. There is a comparison of the two paintings in the book, and I can see what Brown is Babbling about. BUT it also looks like Uriel is pointing to the supposed John Baby and Mary is holding her hand as if blessing the supposed Jesus baby. In the second picture, the two babies have switched "Positions" and Uriel has lost his arm. (Perhaps the nuns were too cheap to pay for a second one?)
Sophie muses over the key, trying to figure out where it might fit. After all it doesn't have the traditional teeth to move tumblers but instead laser burned marks which are examined electronically. She figures Langdon will be able to tell her were the key goes because he knew about the key's embossed seal before ever seeing it.
Yes, because being able to guess a symbolocial thingy from clues is exactly like being able to guess where a key comes from. I'd like anyone to take a look at my keys and from the fact that I work at a library tell me which one opens the door to the library without trying any of them. \~/ .
She then flashes back to that, whatever it was, which caused her to be so upset with her grandfather. Apparently they were... doing something dressed as giant chess pieces and chanting... Karokee Chess? Apparently Sophie didn't like it and fled. \~/
Meanwhile the DCPJ has sealed off the street they were going down and they have to make a turn. The police of course, give chase.
Drinks: nine (and before work too. WOO!)
Chapter thirty one, Sylar eats the Nun's brains learning the location of the keystone. Wait... no... that's not right. He can't do that. Right.
Chapter thirty one, the Nun calls up four people and tries to get in touch with them Three people she calls she gets a hysterical widow, a detective at a murder scene and a priest. These are apparently the three other people Silas killed before going to grandpa. Silas has been busy. And yet there's no APB out for creepy albino dude. There has to have been a witness or something. I mean he's obviously killed three people - four people- in one night. No one has put any connections to this yet. Okay, perhaps the fact that the four people were connected might not be there, but really, Silas should have been mentioned at least once or twice. Which would clear up Langdon right quick. Wait, sorry, being logical again. We can't have Langdon cleared because then he couldn't be a fugitive which means that he can't run around worrying about getting caught which would then amp up any tension. Right. \~/
Silas discovers the Nun as she's making a plaintive call on the answering machine of the top guy (grandpa). He is a gog that she's part of it and demands to know where the keystone is. She tells him she doesn't know. Others knew. And that Opus Dei will never get it.
Silas kills her. \~/ Such a nice man of God he is.
Back to Sophie and Robert. They make it out to her car which is a "SmartCar" which gets 100 kilometers to the liter. Which is pretty good. A kilometer is about 62 miles. A liter is about .30 gallons. Which is about 236 miles on a gallon. My car takes about eight - ten gallons. Which is about at max 2360 miles on a full tank. I'd only have to fill up every three months or so. Wow. I want. \~/
The two of them bolt out of there as Brown switches between kilometers and miles. \~/ And Langdon starts to think about the Madonna on the Rocks. Apparently there's another painting called the Virgin on the Rocks which is practically the same.
The Nus gave Leonardo specific dimensions, and the desired theme for the painting - the Virgin Mary, baby John the Baptist, Uriel, and Baby Jesus sheltering in a cave. Although Da Vinci did as they requested, when he delivered the work, the group reacted with horror. He had filled the painting with explosive and disturbing details.
The painting showed a blue-robed Virgin Mary sitting with her arm around an infant child, presumably Baby Jesus. Opposite Mary sat Uriel, also with an infant, presumably baby John the Baptist. Oddly, though, rather than the usual Jesus blessing John scenario, it was baby John who was blessing baby Jesus... and Jesus was submitting to his authority! More troubling still, Mary was holding one hand high above the head of infant John andmaking a decidedly threatening gesture, -her fingers looking like eagle's talons, gripping an invisible head. Finally, the most obvious and frightening image: Just below Mary's curled fingers, Uriel was making arudecutting gesture with his hand - as if slicing the neck of the invisible head gripped by Mary's claw-like hand.
Langdon's students were always amused to learn that Da Vinci eventually mollified the confraternity by painting them a second, "Water-down" version of the Madonna of the Rocks in which everyone was arranged in a more orthodox manner. The second version now hung in London's National Gallery under the name Virgin of the Rocks, although Langdon still preferred the Louvre's more intriguing original.
\~/ , \~/ , \~/
Now, I'm fairly certain that there has to be something wrong there. There is a comparison of the two paintings in the book, and I can see what Brown is Babbling about. BUT it also looks like Uriel is pointing to the supposed John Baby and Mary is holding her hand as if blessing the supposed Jesus baby. In the second picture, the two babies have switched "Positions" and Uriel has lost his arm. (Perhaps the nuns were too cheap to pay for a second one?)
Sophie muses over the key, trying to figure out where it might fit. After all it doesn't have the traditional teeth to move tumblers but instead laser burned marks which are examined electronically. She figures Langdon will be able to tell her were the key goes because he knew about the key's embossed seal before ever seeing it.
Yes, because being able to guess a symbolocial thingy from clues is exactly like being able to guess where a key comes from. I'd like anyone to take a look at my keys and from the fact that I work at a library tell me which one opens the door to the library without trying any of them. \~/ .
She then flashes back to that, whatever it was, which caused her to be so upset with her grandfather. Apparently they were... doing something dressed as giant chess pieces and chanting... Karokee Chess? Apparently Sophie didn't like it and fled. \~/
Meanwhile the DCPJ has sealed off the street they were going down and they have to make a turn. The police of course, give chase.
Drinks: nine (and before work too. WOO!)
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Date: 2007-09-25 05:37 pm (UTC)Anyway.
Well, as far as I can see, the only difference is the rude gesture. And the cross and halos, and, of course, one looks brighter and stuff, but, as far as positions go, everyone looks just the same to me. But I won´t even go there, because I suck at analysing art.
Anyway, we have, like, five deaths now, and I still don´t feel a thing.
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Date: 2007-09-25 07:43 pm (UTC)As for the use in the da Vinci code you can read for yourself. Basically Dan Brown is just making stuff up.
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Date: 2007-09-25 07:51 pm (UTC)Turns out Brown didn´t either. Go figures.
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Date: 2007-09-25 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-25 07:59 pm (UTC)No, that's about the only difference, once again, Brown's pulling shit out of somewhere.
Anyway, we have, like, five deaths now, and I still don´t feel a thing.
You mean... you don't feel fear for our heroes when Silas catches up to them?! *GASP!*
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Date: 2007-09-25 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-25 06:22 pm (UTC)Smart cars are only found in Europe, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_%28automobile%29 ) mostly because of Europe's smaller roads and trouble finding parking spaces. They do get insane gas mileage.
If you sit by the Eiffel Tower, you'll see about five Smart cars every fifteen minutes. They're really popular. Actually, you might see more now. I haven't been in France for a few years.
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Date: 2007-09-25 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-26 12:31 am (UTC)Of course, Dan Brown is a conspiracy theorist. Maybe he believes in the magic carburetors (http://snopes.com/autos/business/carburetor.asp).
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Date: 2007-09-25 08:01 pm (UTC)Smart Cars
Date: 2007-09-28 05:51 pm (UTC)Re: Smart Cars
Date: 2007-09-28 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-25 09:34 pm (UTC)