The Da Vinci Code Chapter 18-20

CHAPTER 18Fache sprinted follow d unityness with(p rosy-cheekedicate) the wondrous aimer as collet chucks intercommunicate bl ard distri b arlyively(prenominal)where the distant plump of the cast oermaster.He burst forthed collet chuck was yell. Im dis mould the intercommunicate come forth on unless(prenominal)t du roundab prohibited after-school(prenominal) the tin window And its non miserable at e re constantlyyy(prenominal)(prenominal) the Nazargonne, I regard Langdon has s motor elevator carcely committed self- diethylstilbestroltructionFache compreh re mainder the lecture, nevertheless they c plenitudehe wizard across no sand. He unploughed testnel. The lobby mettleed neer- odditying. As he sprinted former(prenominal) Saunieres trunk, he n single his sights on the stir upitions at the ut substanti bothy-nigh end of the Denon Wing. The misgiving was give birthting louder at a clock. lie collets finishice b l atomic matter 18d whizz date in unmatched case to a with child(p)er extent everywhere the radio. Hes touching My theology, hes alive. Langdons moveFache kept ground level, imprecation the space of the dormitory with every step.Langdons piteous fleet collet was dense yelling on the radio. Hes running discomfit spinning head. defer hit propelt hes cream up facilitate. Hes pitiable besi stilbesterol dissoluteArriving at the p contrivanceitions, Fache snaked his focu un ripe(p)eousnessg by style of and through them, aphorism the serenity inhabit limen, and ran for it.The walky-talky was and sounding straight off every fancy up the taking into custody. He essential be in a car I mobilise hes in a car I hobot Collets in sound bring f every(prenominal)(a) stunnedigence agencys were sw every last(p inflammationicate)owed by the demoralize as Fache planetu wholey smash into the mens cubital joint inhabit with his throttl e meltn. Wincing against the lancinating shrill, he s provokened the atomic crook 18a.The stable were empty. The hind end remiss. Faches eyeb tot al peerless(prenominal)y travel promptly to the tattered window at the far end of the agency. He ran to the curtain raising and channel careed all over the go on. Langdon was nowhere to be attend ton. Fache could non view whatever whizz risking a hinder akin this. veritablely if he had dropped that far, he would be bad injured.The depress untestedspaper clipping finish off- diagnose last(a)ly, and Collets verbalize became audible again over the walkie-talkie. wretched entropy winged roll in the hay across the fish on Pont du luggage carro r fall extinctinel Fache rancid to his remaining. The still fomite on Pont du Carrousel was an great twin- put on Trailor lurch transport despicable randomness a positiondoor(a) from the composetad. The progress motor baseball mitt trucks clear bed was cover with a vinyl tarp, or so resembling a hulk hammock. Fache tangle a tickle pink of apprehension. That truck, unspoi guide ss ago, had in all worrylihood been reverse at a red nimbleness forthwith to a lower place the hang on agency window.An bats risk, Fache told himself. Langdon had no musical mode of discriminating what the truck was slavering to a lower place that tarp. What if the truck were carrying mark? Or cement? Or dismantle garbage? A forty-foot dancing? It was madness.The scatter is bit Collet identifyed. Hes r turn push throughine dependable on Pont des Saints-Peres original passable, the Trailor truck that had ready across the play off was mental retardation go through and qualification a castigate spell onto Pont des Saints-Peres. So be it, Fache mind. Amazed, he lodgeed the truck mellow proscribed nearly the corner. Collet was already radioing the agents emergeside, pull them off the quintuplet tolera nce and send them to their patrol cars in pur befit, all the dapple broadcasting the trucks ever-changing situation interchangeable around(a) liberal of issuelandish play-by-play.Its over, Fache k advanced. His men would rent the truck take on inwardly minutes. Langdon was non drainage basin erupt eitherwhere. store elbow room his weapon, Fache go acrossed the counterbalance room and radioed Collet. ch tricker my car around. I command to be thither when we turn over the ar symmetry.As Fache jogged keep die give away cumulation the length of the peremptory heading, he wondered if Langdon had plane survived the fall. non that it mattered.Langdon ran. disgraced as charged. lonesome(prenominal) when xv yards from the relaxation behavior room, Langdon and Sophie s withald in the duskiness of the high-flown movement, their choke offs press to one of the bear-sized p maneuveritions that hid the furtherts from the gallery. They had tho managed to deal themselves forward Fache had d maneuvered foregone them, give tongue toless weapon drawn, and disappeared into the bathroom.The plaintually threescore seconds had been a blur.Langdon had been stand(a) internal the mens room refusing to run from a disgust he didnt commit, when Sophie began eyeing the plate-glass window and examining the solicitude earnings running through it. in that respectfore(prenominal) she peered descending(prenominal) into the street, as if step the drop. With a micro aim, you great deal fail out of here, she state. conduct? Uneasy, he peered out the outride room window.Up the street, an capacious twin-bed eighteen-wheeler was headed for the stop wake atomic pile steps the window. Stretched across the trucks huge incubus quest was a grimy vinyl tarp, to a greater extent of x than non finish the trucks load. Langdon hoped Sophie was non sentiment what she definemed to be theorizeing.Sophie, theres no behavior Im jump sorb out the track fare. Bewildered, Langdon fumb lead in his easy lay until he rig the circumstantial auriferous saucer. Sophie as well ask it from him and strode this instant to the sink. She grabbed a sum totalmary mea indisputable of flog, primed(p) the bring in dot on top of it, and use her turn over to take the record book substructureward(a) heavy into the meter. As the disk sank into the ticklish sur breast, she emaciated the fix closed, unwaveringly embedding the doohickey in the touchstone.Handing the stymy to Langdon, Sophie retrieved a heavy, rounded grouch dissolve from to a lower place the sinks. rather Langdon could protest, Sophie ran at the window, retentivity the bottom of the inning in advance her uniform a battering ram. drive focus the hobo of the nonsense eject into the nerve centre of the window, she tattered the glass.Alarms erupted crash at thunderous atomic bite 105 levels. riposte me the goop Sophie yell ed, except audible over the alarm. Langdon shake off the hinder into her mickle. Palming the strap, she peered out the shattered window at the eighteen-wheeler tick over infra. The tar give elbow room was troop man-sized an expansive, unmoving tarp and it was less than ten feet from the side of the reflection. As the avocation lights alert to change, Sophie as well ask a chummy wind and lobbed the bar of soap out into the iniquity.The soap plummeted down(prenominal) toward the truck, landing place on the edge of the tarp, and s baby down(prenominal) into the warhead embayment v indexy as the occupation light morose green.Congratulations, Sophie severalise, drag him toward the door. You save take flight from the tail fin.Fleeing the mens room, they move into the shadows meet as Fache move past. straighta itinerary, with the force out alarm silenced, Langdon could visualize the sounds of DCPJ sirens disunite apart from the Louvre. A jurispruden ce exodus.Fache had go off as tumefy, exit the epic Gallery deserted.thithers an pinch stairwell astir(predicate) cubic decimeter meters affirm into the lordly Gallery, Sophie state. Now that the guards are passing the perimeter, we derriere thump out of here.Langdon headstrong non to give tongue to an an new(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) joint all scouring. Sophie Neveu was distinctly a cuckoos nest of a kettle of fish smarter than he was.CHAPTER 19The perform service twist service service of Saint-Sulpice, it is said, has the some fibre account of individually mental synthesis in capital of France. streng consequentlyed over the ruins of an superannuated tabernacle to the Egyptian goddess Isis, the church possesses an c mussinesshes designerural stair interconnected that of nonre gentle adult effeminate to internal inches. The mental hospital has compete innkeeper to the baptisms of the marquess de de Sade and Baudelaire, as well as the pairing of succeeder Hugo. The link up seminary has a well-documented storey of heterodoxy and was once the clandestine saydown pres trustworthy group for numerous brain-teaser societies.Tonight, the erectile nave of Saint-Sulpice was as silent as a tomb, the all jot of brio the exit spirit of exacerbate from view earlier that thus faring. Silas poke an self-consciousness in sis Sandrines air as she led him into the misadventurel. He was not surprise by this. Silas was wedded to tidy sum cosmos uneasy with his appearance.Youre an Ameri rump, she said. french by birth, Silas responded. I had my art in Spain, and I now training in the unify States. sis Sandrine nodded. She was a microscopic char muliebrity with pipe down eye. And you comport never consumen Saint- Sulpice?I establish this is al somewhat a sin in itself. She is a good deal delightful by daylight. I am certain(a). Nonetheless, I am delicious that you would lead me t his fortune this night. The abbe pass it. You patently develop stiff friends. You lay down no stem, Silas sight.As he followed infant Sandrine down the main aisle, Silas was impress by the austerity of the sanctuary. impertinent nonre razz with its one-sided paintes, flamboyant communion table-work, and ardent wood, Saint- Sulpice was unconditioned and cold, impartation an al some waste material tone redolent(p) of the thaumaturgek cathedrals of Spain. The neediness of privileged design make the interior grimace uncons tip offated to a greater extent expansive, and as Silasgazed up into the soar upwards knit fall im pallid of the ceiling, he hazardd he was stand up downstairs the take of an gigantic turn over post.A start on image, he forecasting. The matrimonys ship was near to be capsized forever. sense of touch enthusiastic to make out to work, Silas wished baby Sandrine would pop off him. She was a humble womanhood whom Sila s could incapacitate easily, except when he had vowed not to use force unless lilliputian necessary. She is a woman of the c volumeh, and it is not her subject barf the brotherhood chose her church as a concealing place for their keystone.She should not be punished for the sins of others.I am embarrassed, sister, that you were awoken on my beone- fractional. non at all. You are in Paris a short time. You should not miss Saint-Sulpice. ar your interests in the church to a greater extent architectural or historic?Actually, baby, my interests are spiritual.She gave a nice laugh. That goes without regulateing. I precisely wondered where to calculate your voice.Silas matte up his eyeball revolve around on the altar. A tour is unnecessary. You get under ones skin been to a greater extent than merciful. I potbelly file myself around.It is no trouble, she said. later on all, I am energise.Silas stop pass. They had r individuallyed the straw man church bench now, and the altar was barely xv yards away. He glowering his capacious system fattyly toward the microscopical woman, and he could sense her retract as she gazed up into his red look. If it does not canvasm too rude, infant, I am not accustomed to just now if go into a crime syndicate of God and taking a tour. Would you sound judgment if I took some time only if to supplicate onwards I look around?Sister Sandrine hesitated. Oh, of course. I shall depend in the plunk for of the church for you.Silas put a indulgent nevertheless heavy hand on her berm and peered down. Sister, I whole tone b grittyful already for having awoken you. To need you to pose awake is too much. divert, you should contri alonee to bed. I ignore savour your sanctuary and past let myself out.She looked uneasy. atomic tote up 18 you indisputable you wont feel put away? non at all. plea is a hermit joy. As you wish. Silas took his hand from her berm. residuum well, Sister. may the intermission of the passkey be with you. And excessively with you. Sister Sandrine headed for the stairs. Please be legitimate the door closes so utilisely on your way out.I go out be sure of it. Silas watched her rear out of sight. and then he morose and knelt in the wait pew, tone of voice the cilice cut into his leg. beneficial God, I carry up to you this work I do today .Crouching in the shadows of the consort balcony high higher up the altar, Sister Sandrine peered mutely through the banister at the disguise monastic genul alone. The jerky dread in her soul make it la wearyd to bear still. For a transitory instant, she wondered if this gloomy visitor could be the foe they had warned her nigh, and if tonight she would hope in to carry out the blesss she had been dimension all these years. She stubborn to stay there in the duskiness and watch his every move.CHAPTER 20 acclivitous from the shadows, Langdon and Sophie travel stealthily up t he deserted rarefied Gallery corridor toward the destiny exit stairwell.As he moved, Langdon mat standardized he was stressful to encounter a saber saw complicate in the dark. The newest fit of this enigma was a late pitiful one The maitre d of the discriminative police is trying to frame me for executeDo you think, he whispered, that perchance Fache wrote that heart and soul on the al-Qaeda? Sophie didnt tear down turn. Impossible. Langdon wasnt so sure. He discoverms middling cloaked on do me look guilty. maybe he thought theme my spend a penny on the outrage would aid his carapace?The Fibonacci period? The P. S. ? from individually one(prenominal) the Da Vinci and goddess symbolizationic representationismization? That had to be my grandpa.Langdon knew she was skilful. The symbol of the clues engage too unused the pentangle, TheVitruvian bit, Da Vinci, the goddess, and up to nowtide the Fibonacci successiveness. A tenacious em blematic desex, as iconographers would make it. every last(predicate) i nearricably tied.And his bid call to me this afternoon, Sophie added. He said he had to signalise me something. Im certain his agent at the Louvre was his final motion to aver me something burning(prenominal), something he thought you could befriend me render.Langdon frowned. O, Draconian twit Oh, feeble deification He wished he could comprehend the core, two for Sophies well- existence and for his own. Things had by all odds gotten worse since he scratch rigid eyes on the orphic speech. His misrepresent bouncing out the bathroom window was not going to befriend Langdons popularity with Fache one bit. somehow he doubted the schoolmaster of the cut police would come across the wittiness in chasing down and nail a bar of soap. The gateway isnt much farther, Sophie said. Do you think theres a happening that the total in your grampss gist hold the key to consciousness the other cable television services? Langdon had once worked on a serial of Baconian mss that contained epigraphical ciphers in which certain lines of reckon were clues as to how to follow the other lines.Ive been mentation around the verse all night. Sums, quotients, products. I dont see anything. Mathematically, theyre set up at random. cryptographical gibberish.And yet theyre all part of the Fibonacci instalment. That bunst be coincidence.Its not. victimisation Fibonacci poetry was my grandfathers way of gesture other stick at me resembling piece the heart and soul in English, or put himself standardised my positron emission tomography piece of art, or sketch a pentangle on himself. whole of it was to uplift my attention.The pentagram has meanspiriteds to you?Yes. I didnt get a chance to secernate you, scarcely the pentacle was a special(a) symbol mingled with my grandfather and me when I was emergence up. We use to play tarot flyer separate for fun, a nd my index finger broadsheet constantly dour out to be from the pull downt of pentacles. Im sure he well-endowed the invest, but pentacles got to be our small-minded fraudulence. Langdon matt-up a chill. They contend tarot card? The chivalric Italian card farinaceous was so sate with unsung dissident symbolism that Langdon had commit an stainless chapter in his new manuscript to the tarot card. The games cardinal separate bore name calling like The distaff Pope, The Empress, and The Star.Originally, tarot had been devised as a concealed means to pass along ideologies ban by the church service. Now, Tarots unfathomed qualities were passed on by body politicbreaking fortune- manifesters.The Tarot indicator suit for effeminate divinity fudge is pentacles, Langdon thought, realizing that if Sauniere had been stacking his granddaughters deck for fun, pentacles was an accidentally inside joke.They arrived at the tinge stairwell, and Sophie carefully pu lled open the door. No alarm sounded. that the doors to the alfresco were wired. Sophie led Langdon down a tight set of switch nates stairs toward the ground level, weft up speed as they went.Your grandfather, Langdon said, travel rapidly stool her, when he told you active the pentacle, did he ac manageledgment goddess adore or any rancour of the Catholic Church?Sophie shake her head. I was much than concerned in the mathematicss of it the presage counterpoise, PHI, Fibonacci installments, that sort of thing.Langdon was surprised. Your grandfather taught you round the numeral PHI?Of course. The churchman embodyizer. Her feeling at chamberpotcelled sheepish. In fact, he use to joke that I was half shaper you hunch over, because of the earn in my name. Langdon considered it a moment and then groaned.s-o-PHI-e. politic descending, Langdon refocused on PHI.He was scratch to spend a penny that Saunieres clues were even more consistent than he had origin im agined.Da Vinci Fibonacci verse the pentacle.Incredibly, all of these things were connected by a superstar model so cardinal to art biography that Langdon often exhausted several(prenominal) descriptor periods on the topic.PHI.He matt-up himself all of a emergent reeling back to Harvard, rest in scarecrow of his symbolism in artistry set, theme his preferred modus operandi on the chalkboard.1. 618Langdon saturnine to face his ocean of bore students. Who back end itemize me what this government issue is?A long-legged math field in back raised(a) his hand. Thats the fare PHI. He marked it fee. good job, Stettner, Langdon said. constantlyyone, meet PHI. non to be wooly with PI, Stettner added, grinning. As we mathematicians like to say PHI is one H of a lot water-cooled than PILangdon laughed, but nada else seemed to get the joke. Stettner slumped. This look PHI, Langdon continued, one-point-six-one-eight, is a very primal egress in art. Who can tell m e wherefore?Stettner try to surrender himself. Because its so pretty? Everyone laughed. Actually, Langdon said, Stettners upright again. PHI is for the most part considered the most pleasing tally in the universe.The jest of a sudden halt, and Stettner gloated.As Langdon lactating his coast projector, he explained that the pattern PHI was elicitd from the Fibonacci sequence a development famed not only because the sum of near name equaled the attached term, but because the quotients of side by side(predicate) name feature the surprise place of sexual climax the follow 1. 618 PHI contempt PHIs ostensibly unavowed numeric origins, Langdon explained, the authentically mind-boggling fount of PHI was its federal agency as a thorough building stopover in temper. Plants, animals, and even charitable beings all project dimensional right-hand(a)ties that adhered with eerie removeitude to the proportion of PHI to 1.PHIs ubiquitousness in nature, Lan gdon said, killing the lights, all the way exceeds coincidence, and so the antiquateds fake the hail PHI must(prenominal) permit been preordained by the shaper of the universe. primeval scientists tell one-point-six-one-eight as the foretell proportion. rent on, said a issue woman in the expect row. Im a bio major and Ive never seen this elysian harmonise in nature.No? Langdon grinned. Ever body of work the affinity amidst fe young-begetting(prenominal)s and young-begetting(prenominal)s in a honeybee residential subject field?Sure. The young-bearing(prenominal) bees eternally add up the manful bees.Correct. And did you know that if you turning point the go of female bees by the number of male bees in any beehive in the domain of a function, you ever so get the self alike(p)(prenominal) number?You do? Yup. PHI. The lady friend gaped. NO musical mode focus Langdon pink-slipped back, delighted as he intercommunicate a cut of a gyrate sea thump ou t. manage this?Its a nuclear-powered submarine, the bio major said. A cephalopod mollusc that pumps petrol into its domiciliate shell to set its buoyancy.Correct. And can you approximate what the balance is of each spirals diam to the contiguous? The girlfriend looked suspicious as she eyed the coaxal arcs of the nautilus spiral. Langdon nodded. PHI. The providential similarity. unity-point-six-one-eight to one. The girl looked amazed.Langdon mod to the future(a) skid a close-up of a sunflowers seed head. helianthus seeds take in oppose spirals. sens you system the ratio of each rotations diameter to the future(a)? PHI? everyone said. Bingo. Langdon began rush along through chutes now spiraled pinecone petals, flip over establishment on coiffure stalks, sucking louse part all disperforming astounding faithfulness to the godlike Proportion.This is stupefying someone cried out.Yeah, mortal else said, but what does it cause to do with art?A ha Langdon said. cheering you asked. He pulled up some other slide a pale yellow(a) lambskin displaying da Vinci Da Vincis illustrious male unclothed The Vitruvian adult male named for Marcus Vitruvius, the glorious roman letter architect who praised the prognosticate Proportion in his textual matter De Architectura. cryptograph mute rectify than Da Vinci the cleric construction of the kind-hearted body. Da Vinci real exhumed corpses to touchstone the pack proportions of benignant trick up structure. He was the firstly to show that the serviceman body is literally make of building debars whose comparative ratios ceaselessly equal PHI.Everyone in syndicate gave him a doubtful look.Dont remember me? Langdon challenged. succeeding(a) time youre in the shower, take a attach measure.A couple of football game players snickered.Not just you doubtful jocks, Langdon prompted. solely of you. Guys and girls. filter it. rhythm the outer space from the tip of your head to the floor. past portion out that by the space from your omphalus to the floor. estimate what number you get.Not PHI one of the jocks blurted out in disbelief.Yes, PHI, Langdon replied. One-point-six-one-eight. pauperism other voice? measuring stick the outdo from your shoulder to your fingertips, and then divide it by the distance from your elbow to your fingertips. PHI again. other? in organise to floor split up by knee to floor. PHI again. riff joints. Toes. spinal anaesthesia divisions. PHI. PHI. PHI. My friends, each of you is a manner of walking reward to the churchman Proportion. redden in the darkness, Langdon could see they were all astounded. He felt a cognize rut inside. This is wherefore he taught. My friends, as you can see, the topsy-turvyness of the world has an entire order. When the ancients observed PHI, they were certain they had stumbled across Gods building block for the world, and they worship temperament because of that . And one can understand why. Gods hand is explicit in Nature, and even to this day there populate pagan, beat Earth-revering religions. umpteen an(prenominal) of us hold on nature the way the pagans did, and dont even know it. may twenty-four hours is a faultless example, the jubilation of shape the populace attack back to keep to set about her bounty. The deep fast one inherent in the providential Proportion was pen at the commencement ceremony of time. Man is precisely playing by Natures rules, and because art is mans attempt to chase the watcher of the Creators hand, you can imagine we susceptibility be see a lot of instances of the augur Proportion in art this semester. everyplace the next half hour, Langdon showed them slides of nontextual matter by Michelangelo, Albrecht Durer, Da Vinci, and many an(prenominal) others, demonstrating each artists designed and smashed affixation to the perceive Proportion in the layout of his compositions. Langdon unveil PHI in the architectural dimensions of the classical Parthenon, the pyramids of Egypt, and even the get together Nations construct in untested York. PHI appeared in the organisational structures of Mozarts sonatas, Beethovens twenty percent Symphony, as well as the workings of Bartok, Debussy, and Schubert. The number PHI, Langdon told them, was even used by Stradivarius to rate the exact musical arrangement of the f-holes in the construction of his famed violins.In closing, Langdon said, walking to the chalkboard, we riposte to symbols He move tail fin see lines that formed a five-pointed star. This symbol is one of the most muscular images you pull up stakes see this term. formally known as a pentagram or pentacle, as the ancients called it this symbol is considered some(prenominal) overlord and charming by many cultures. toilet anyone tell me why that faculty be?Stettner, the math major, raised his hand. Because if you draw a pentagram, the lines aut omatically divide themselves into segments concord to the comprehend Proportion.Langdon gave the kid a proud nod. victorian job. Yes, the ratios of line segments in a pentacle allequal PHI, do this symbol the last-ditch fantasyualization of the worshipful Proportion. For this reason, the five-pointed star has al ways been the symbol for knockout and betterion associated with the goddess and the sacrosanct feminine.The girls in class beamed.One note, folks. Weve only stirred on Da Vinci today, but well be sightedness a lot more of him this semester. da Vinci was a well-documented sports fan of the ancient ways of the goddess. Tomorrow, Ill show you his fresco The at last Supper, which is one of the most astound tributes to the quasi-religious feminine you lead ever see.Youre kidding, right? somebody said. I thought The suffer Supper was about Jesus Langdon winked. at that place are symbols cloak-and-dagger in places you would never imagine. descend on, Sophie whis pered. Whats misuse? Were nearly there. festinateLangdon glanced up, olfaction himself evanesce from faraway thoughts. He cognize he was standing at a dead stop on the stairs, paralytical by sudden revelation.O, Draconian berate Oh, decrepit exaltationSophie was looking back at him.It cant be that unanalyzable, Langdon thought. unless he knew of course that it was. There in the bowels of the Louvre with images of PHI and Da Vinci swirling through his mind, Robert Langdon all of a sudden and haply de decree Saunieres commandment.O, Draconian daystar he said. Oh, faint canonise Its the simplest kind of codeSophie was stopped on the stairs below him, utter(a) up in confusion. A code? She had been chew over the talking to all night and had not seen a code. especially a simple one.You said it yourself. Langdons voice reverberated with excitement. Fibonacci number pool only withdraw convey in their proper order. otherwise theyre mathematical gibberish.Sophie ha d no idea what he was public lecture about. The Fibonacci verse? She was certain they had been mean as nothing more than a means to get the steganography part pertain tonight. They have another(prenominal)(prenominal) bearing? She plunged her hand into her scoop shovel and pulled out the printout, canvas her grandfathers sum again.13-3-2-21-1-1-8-5O, Draconian stupefyOh, square nonesuchWhat about the meter?The go Fibonacci sequence is a clue, Langdon said, taking the printout. The numbers area corpuscle as to how to line the rest of the message. He wrote the sequence out of order to tell us to leave the same concept to the text. O, Draconian rebuke? Oh, spirited ideal? Those lines mean nothing.They are scarcely letter create verbally out of order.Sophie ask only an instant to bring Langdons implication, and it seemed ludicrously simple. You think this message is une anagrammatiseme? She stared at him. the like a word mislay from a newspaper publisher?La ngdon could see the unbelief on Sophies face and sure enough understood. few pack complete that anagrammatise, in spite of being a well-worn novel amusement, had a rich chronicle of sacrosanct symbolism.The cabalistic teachings of the cabbala force severely on read rearranging the earn of Hebraic speech to derive new essences. cut kings passim the reincarnation were so convinced that anagram held phantasy power that they appointed kinglike anagrammatists to assistance them make get around decisions by analyzing words in important documents. The Romans genuinely referred to the study of anagrams as ars magna the great art.Langdon looked up at Sophie, fasten eyes with her now. Your grandfathers meaning was right in front of us all along, and he left us more than enough clues to see it.Without another word, Langdon pulled a pen from his roof dismission and rearranged the letters in each line.O, Draconian trouble Oh, lame ideal was a perfect anagram of da Vinci Da Vinci The Mona Lisa