“Well done. Amon is indeed represented as a man with a ram’s head, and his promiscuity and curved horns are related to our modern sexual slang “horny”.’ ‘No shit!’ ‘No shit,’ Langdon said. ‘And do you know who Amon’s counterpart was? The Egyptian goddess of fertility?”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Symbols carry different meanings in different settings. - Robert Langdon”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Most tourists mistranslated Jardins des Tuileries as relating to the thousands of tulips that bloomed here, but Tuileries was actually a literal reference to something far less romantic. This park had once been an enormous, polluted excavation pit from which Parisian contractors mined clay to manufacture the city’s famous red roofing tiles—or tuiles.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Misunderstanding breeds distrust,”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Despite for a monumental reputation, the Mona Lisa was a mere thirty-one inches by twenty-one inches -- smaller even than the posters of her sold in the Louvre gift shop.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
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