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Ironically, this same code had been a plot twist in a mediocre thriller Langdon had read years ago.

symbature—a symbol used in place of a signature. Many of the early philosophers, artists, and authors signed their work with their own unique symbol or monogram rather than their name. This practice added a mysterious allure to their work and also protected them from persecution should their writings or artwork be deemed counterestablishment.

The dark religions are departed and sweet science reigns.

The mysteries are a flaming torch, which, in the hands of a master, can light the way, but which, in the hands of a madman, can scorch the earth.

a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

I know the fucking Bible, and there ain't no fucking Book of Leviathan.

Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to laughter. Almost no moment or context was too serious for this author not to find some levity in it, as some of us had discovered to our embarrassment at funerals.

In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes. Francis

This is all too important." Aenea smiled. "It's all too important. That's the damned problem, isn't it?" She turned her face back to the stars.

and my editor, Tom Dupree, for his patience, enthusiasm, and shared good taste for loving Mystery Science Theater 3000.

He felt the scrotum-lifting tension he always experienced when he was an obvious target.

Their three approaches fail but somehow the story itself succeeds, despite its narrator's and even author's failures!

I have made command decisions based upon insights which would not have seemed totally logical outside the context of my experience and training.

Only the descent of the writer to the world was more painful as he or she returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia.

Red and blue shadows stretched across the amber lawn toward us. "Keats," I said.

ignored the expensive dress and affected mandarin nails in favor of the personality which blazed like a beacon

Clemens laughed until he began coughing again. "Don't you see, James?" he said at last. "You and I are only minor characters in this story about the Great Detective. Our little lives and endings mean nothing to the God-Writer, whoever the sonofabitch might be.

the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair which Hopkins called carrion comfort.

Tell me everything you know about the horse, Bottom-san

The road turns and starts climbing where he impacted," said Cameron. Dar winced slightly. He hated the verb-use of nouns such as impact.

I'd already come to realize that the monologue was his favorite form of conversation.

If you are reading this, you are almost certainly reading it for the wrong reason. But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains. Only the immutable facts that I have written this and you are reading it remain important in the end.

I don't want to be a presentist," the author was saying. Presentism: the anachronistic introduction of present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations of the past.