TSUAD: Another Title Page through Chapter One
Another title page: Just the Angels & Demons ambigram (without the superfluous squiggles). Aside: while searching for that image I found one of CERN's pages on the book. It goes into a little more detail about antimatter than I did last TSUAD; worth a quick read (the last answer of course is LIES CONSPIRACY OMG).
Prologue: Enter physicist Lenonardo Vetra and an archetypal "shadowy figure who kills people". The latter is torturing (by branding) the former. Then Vetra's eye gets G'kar'd.
Chapter 1: Enter Robert Langdon: "religious symbology" professor (yeah okay), bachelor, claustrophobe. Enter Maximilian Kohler: particle physicist who sends faxes of dead bodies when people won't talk to him at stupidly early in the morning. Langdon shits a symbolical brick when he sees a SHOCKING SYMBOL on its chest (totally not the first chapter of Da Vinci Code at ALL) and accidentally views it upside down (hint: it's the same).
Highlights:
- "Last month a stripper from Oklahoma had promised Langdon the best sex of his life if he would fly down and verify the authenticity of a cruciform that had magically appeared on her bedsheets. The Shroud of Tulsa, Langdon had called it."
- "Worldwide Web"
- "Although a tough teacher and strict disciplinarian, Langdon was the first to embrace what he hailed as the "lost art of good clean fun". He relished recreation with an infectious fanaticism that had earned him a fraternal acceptance among the students. His campus nickname - "The Dolphin" - was a reference both to his affable nature and his legendary ability to dive into a pool and outmaneuver the entire opposing squad in a water polo match." Here we are introduced to Dan Brown's habit of giving retarded, inapt animal nicknames to his major characters. Also, if that passage isn't code for "ephebophile" I don't know what is.
Prologue: Enter physicist Lenonardo Vetra and an archetypal "shadowy figure who kills people". The latter is torturing (by branding) the former. Then Vetra's eye gets G'kar'd.
Chapter 1: Enter Robert Langdon: "religious symbology" professor (yeah okay), bachelor, claustrophobe. Enter Maximilian Kohler: particle physicist who sends faxes of dead bodies when people won't talk to him at stupidly early in the morning. Langdon shits a symbolical brick when he sees a SHOCKING SYMBOL on its chest (totally not the first chapter of Da Vinci Code at ALL) and accidentally views it upside down (hint: it's the same).
Highlights:
- "Last month a stripper from Oklahoma had promised Langdon the best sex of his life if he would fly down and verify the authenticity of a cruciform that had magically appeared on her bedsheets. The Shroud of Tulsa, Langdon had called it."
- "Worldwide Web"
- "Although a tough teacher and strict disciplinarian, Langdon was the first to embrace what he hailed as the "lost art of good clean fun". He relished recreation with an infectious fanaticism that had earned him a fraternal acceptance among the students. His campus nickname - "The Dolphin" - was a reference both to his affable nature and his legendary ability to dive into a pool and outmaneuver the entire opposing squad in a water polo match." Here we are introduced to Dan Brown's habit of giving retarded, inapt animal nicknames to his major characters. Also, if that passage isn't code for "ephebophile" I don't know what is.