Da Vinci Code - Paging AndrewR

Right. Just finished it. Ignoring the plot holes that you could drive a
Goldwing through, it leaves me idly wondering.

All that symbology stuff, troof or bollocks?

I could go and do some research, but then I thought, why have a
proto-Pope and bark yourself?

So AndrewR, what say you? 160 words, on my desk by Monday morning. And
show your working out.

 

Not a bad read. File under fiction.

 

<resists the urge to make a shorter link to veronicamoser.>

 

I'm not familiar with the book in question.

Care to give me a summary or a web-link?


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Well you're fat lot of fucking good then, aren't you?

Opus Dei bad[1], American professor good. Apparently cute Frog
burd-wivva-brain[2]. Holy Grail. Moderate sex. Fair amount of violence.
Some disability.


Ermm...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0552149519/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1
/026-7239002-8574016

[1] And who'd argue with that?
[2] Except for when it doesn't suit the plot.

 

AndrewR wrote:

Spolier Space

I'm about to spoil the plot do not read further if you don't want the
plot given away.

Spolier Space

Spolier Space

Spolier Space

Spolier Space

seriously, don't read on if you intend to read the book.

Spolier Space

Spolier Space

Spolier Space

Spolier Space

Spolier Space

Right I've warned you, here it is:


At least this wasn't about the holy grail, in terms of a cup/chalice,
but of a woman (magdalene) who was christs wife, and was bearing his
child when he got himself into his spot of bother.

The child was born and thus a bloodline was secretly kept alive in
france courtesy of the Priory of Sion [1] etc.

It was entertainment of a sort, and makes you wonder slightly.

[1] which I understand is/was an actual group

 

Right, um, thanks for that.

As a general (or universal) rule anything involving the Holy Grail is likely
to be bollocks (in terms of historical accuracy).

There's no biblical support for a holy grail existing nor any literary trace
of it until the late 11th century when, not to be too blunt, it was made up.

If you want questions about any other part of the book answered you'll
either have to tell me some more details of the plot or buy me a copy.


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Its a poor mans version of 'Forcaults Pendulum' - Umberto Eco? Prolly
got the name and title slightly wrong, but you know who I mean...
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Oh and allegedly it is her that sits next to jesus in da vinci's last
supper.

about as likely as a man rising from the dead, or a man parting the
seas, or someone feeding 5 bazillion people from just a household packet
of jelly beans?

dunno, I don't follow religion, but things like this do intrigue me a
little.

 

Eco displayed how a rumour might quickly be translated into a cult (from
my reading years ago), imagine how such a rumour might flourish in more
superstitious times.

AndrewR (or anyone else in fact) how and why are you (is he) so
knowledgeable about these obscure topics?

 

Parsi[v|f]al.

Most of it is attributed to the mistranslation as the
legend probably refers to the Arc of the Covenant.

 

Well it's only obscure if you don't learn about it.

There are many, many subjects of which I have a vast wealth of ignorance,
but if I turn around and look at my nearest bookshelf the titles are "The
Bible : A history", "The Chair of Saint Peter", "The Jerusalem Bible", "The
Catholic Church", "A brief history of Christianity", "The history of the
church", "The early church", "God", "The Devil : A biography" and so it
continues.

I was interested in the subject, I read some web-pages, I bought and read
some books, I was still interested so I carried on doing the same.

I'm pretty certain it's a technique that would work for most subjects


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Doesnotcompute wrote

You obviously have never seen Ready Steady Cook have you?

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Those early Migs were bloody awful, right enough.

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The slippery slope that leads to shit like British-Israelism (which my gran
was quite into, as it happens).

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/britisrael.html

 

If you whip away the plot, and the Opus Dei stuff, from the Da Vinci Code,
you're left with a fairly reasonable precis of the Holy Blood and the Holy
Grail: and it'll take a damn sight less long to read as well

 

The lost tribes of Israel predate Jesus by more than 700 years, so I'm a bit
lost as to the connection here.


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But the symbolism links back to various 'cauldron' myths. Don't get me
started....

 

On Thu, 13 May 2004 21:05:16 +0100, Doesnotcompute

Snipped all plot so no spoilers.

For a funny, evil take on that and other things sir wants the series
of graphic novels 'The Preacher'.

I'd lay bets on AndrewR having read them.

 

<me perks, this is dissertation stuff>

The mixed Marys. Very interesting from the religious archeology view
point.