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                                              March    2, 2005
                                              October 30, 2005

Reading the infamous
"Da Vinci Code" (2003)
by Dan Brown:

                    POV
The pov:

   A floating, fractured view,
   oscillating between greater or
   lesser knowlege than the lead                  A twist: the one
   characters.                                    viewpoint that
                                                  the narrative
The main male                                     does not visit
character is weak,                                turns out to be
colorless.                                        the mastermind!

   Only a little better is the female
   lead, which should be an important
   role in a book calling for recognition
   of the "sacred feminine".                        A monster: a psychotic,
                                                    limping albino masochist.
   Her decade-long emotional reaction is
   a key element of the backstory; her
   impulses drive the foreground story:
   neither are terribly believeable.


           The novelty here is
           elsewhere though: it's
           the sense that the
           author may be serious.     The background
                                      material seems
           But that intro!            straight out of
                                      "The Templar
           "All secret                Revelation"--
           ceremonies                 which I happen
           guaranteed                 to own a copy
           accurate."                 of...             (oh don't
                                                        ask why).
           How *can* this be
           taken seriously?              And that book is
                                         *so* obviously
                                         cranky and crazy...
   Strange that this book has            it doesn't seem
   provoked so many extensive            likely that a Dan
   debunkeries... what are               Brown would take
   they so nervous about?                it as much more
                                         than fodder for
                                         a story.
   Perhaps the forces of
   doctrinaire Christianity
   are not quite the
   unassailable juggernaut
   that they often seem?



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