Coming of age in Samoa (6/27/06)
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Angels & Demons. [Dan Brown, 2000.]
A gruesome murder. This could only be the work of — the Illuminati!
Boston to Geneva in 64 minutes.
My God, he thought,
I’m in the land of Oz.
The war between science and religion.
Vittoria Vetra?
Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.And then he fucked her. — No, not him. The other guy.
“Recently she disproved one of Einstein’s fundamental theories by using atomically synchronized cameras to observe a school of tunafish.”
...an experiment to prove Genesis...
...Portuguese men-o’-war trapping antimatter between their tentacles...
Fooling the retinal scan with a severed eyeball. [Gaah.]
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a quarter of a gram ...Giving the eyeball a decent burial.
His intellect seemed to be the product of an icy divorce from his inner spirit.
“My father could argue two sides of a Möbius strip.”
The pyramid on the back of the dollar bill. Again.
A Mickey Mouse watch.
The cradle of modern civilization. And at its core...a ticking bomb.
Il conclave.The white smoke is for loading and unloading of passengers only. No parking.
Langdon had often wondered if there was a huge crate of stone penises somewhere.
Held hostage by an armed man in pajamas.Churchill had once told reporters that if English agents had infiltrated the Nazis to the degree the Illuminati had the English Parliament, the war would have been over in one month.
Guy de Maupassant had once written that the painting looked like something painted for a carnival wrestling booth by an ignorant coal heaver.
Her almond-scented hair tossed lightly in the breeze.
A trumpet fish floating vertically in seagrass.
Hail Mary, Mother of God... [Sic.]
Waiting for a bunch of old farts to elect their next chief old fart.
The toughest librarian on earth.
Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.503?
Substantiate or suffocate.
The media is the right arm of anarchy.Langdon recalled that much of Galileo’s legal trouble had begun when he described planetary motion as
elliptical. [?!!]
The path of light is laid, the sacred text.
A symmetrical meter based on the sacred Illuminati numbers of 5 and 2!
“You know Madonna’s last name?”
The air inside the Pantheon was cool and damp, heavy with history.
Christianity as a product of memetic recombination.
Woodrow Wilson gave three radio broadcasts in 1921...
“There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, so pervasive, that none had better speak above their breath when they speak of it.”
Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.
Television interviews with Woodrow Wilson were uploaded to YouTube and he posted denunciations of the Illuminati on his blog.
Air, Langdon thought.
The second element of science. See the Periodic Table for confirmation. Ask Mendeleyev.
I just took a leak in the Pope’s toilet.An iciness raked her flesh.
The scene before them was so unexpected, so bizarre, that Langdon had to close his eyes and reopen them before his mind could take it all in.
...the horror to which Vittoria would soon awake...
The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations.
She was not as beautiful as the women he bought, and yet she had an animal strength that excited him.
The evening breeze slowly cooled his ardor.
‘Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold!
Glick had acted as any dedicated reporter would — without honor.
Although CERN had lots of accelerators, their logo showed only two.
Two is the Illuminati number of duality. Although most accelerators had only one injection tube, the logo showed five.
Five is the number of the Illuminati pentagram. Then had come the coup — the most brilliant point of all.
As the soul becomes enlightened...it takes the beautiful shape of the dove.Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.Put the girl in peril.
She would service him again.
The ultimate submission. Then, at the moment of his own climax, he would slit her throat.
Let angels guide you on your lofty quest....on the floor Langdon saw something that almost stopped his heart...
“Houdini knew yoga.”
Gott wird ihn beschützen....what promoter P.T. Barnum said...
“This is
terrible for antimatter!”
The villain expires, with the last words: “G-give this to the m-media... .”
Time was running out.[The runway was too short for the giant ship!]
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unveiled in its diabolical genius....
...the science of entanglement physics...
Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.As the light roared out in all directions, the unimaginable occurred.
Americans falling from the sky?“It’s him!” the nurse exclaimed ... “And I recognize his tweed coat!”
...aliens harvesting his testicles...
God is the energy that flows through the synapses of our nervous system and the chambers of our hearts!
The Pope fathered a child.Time seemed to have lost all meaning within the four walls of the chapel.
“You’ve never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?”
Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.The subject [of
Ossian] having been introduced by Dr. Fordyce, Dr. Blair, relying on the internal evidence of their antiquity, asked Dr. Johnson whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems? Johnson replied, “Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.”
____________Great helium (6/14/06)
