And we drive the Code through Debauchery.

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A summing up. The police are running around like a bunch of headless chickens looking for Langdon and Perky Tits. Silas is sitting around with a very large marble pillar In his pants and Perky Tits and Langdon are going somewhere. Also something is at stake. We just don't know what. As I started to mention in another comment in the previous entry, this is a bad idea. If the reader doesn't know what's at stake then they have nothing at stake in finishing the story. Being strung along like this can only work so long. Being told that something is important (but not told what it is) isn't as exciting as say if they don't discover what her grandfather was blathering about a new Crusades would happen. I think that would be kinda interesting. A new Crusades, after all the other one was so bloody etc and that would be something at stake that they wouldn't want to happen. That would have consequences. Dire consequences. After all this what Brown is insinuating will happen if the whatever gets out. That there are Dire World Shaking Consequences. It'd be a different story all together if he hadn't been hinting at that, but since that's what he declares the stakes to be, that's what we need to see.

Now that we're all caught up, Brown starts to wank off again. Langdon and Perky Tits are driving through a park called, "Bois de Boulonge" which is also known as "The Garden of Earthly Delights" as a reference to the Bosch painting. There Langdon gets to see "... two topless teenage girls [who]shot smoldering gazes into the taxi. Beyond them, a well-oiled black man in a G-string turned and flexed his buttocks. Besides him, a gorgeous blond woman lifted her miniskirt to reveal that she was not, in fact, a woman." \~/ Really Brown... Fortunately to distract Langdon from the Sights, Perky Tits asks him to tell her about the Priory of Sion.

The following will be an infodump of everything you wanted to know about the Priory but is still probably wrong because Dan Brown is telling it. We get our first mention of Secrets and Pope (Vatican) here. \~/ The Knights Templar \~/ are the original members of the Priory of Sion and they found a secret stash of documents under the ruins of Herod's temple which was built on top of Solomon's temple. \~/ First off these are more commonly known as the First and Second Temples. Second off, Herod wasn't the one who built the second temple that was Ezra (check out the books of Ezra and Jeremiah for that bit) and Herod only made additions to it. \~/ The Knights find SOMETHING \~/ that made them really rich. The Knights some how get limitless power from the Church. Whereupon the Templars get too much power and according to Brown, the Pope conspires with King Philippe IV to get rid of the Knights and had them all killed and disbanded. He charges them with "Devil worship, homosexuality, defiling the cross, sodomy and other blasphemous behavior. \~/ According to Wikipedia King Philippe owed the Knights a bunch of money and pressured the Pope into disbanding them. \~/ Apparently what the Pope really wanted was the Knights rich library of secret documents. \~/ Which he didn't find because the Priory already moved them and they're called the "Sangreal" or the Holy Grail! *GASP*

Continuing on, Langdon says that Holy Grail is the literal meaning of "Sangreal". It started out as Sangraal which changed to Sangreal and then slit into San Greal which is translated into Holy Grail. Brown actually got this right. \~/ Langdon goes onto explain that the Grail is not a cup like in Indiana Jones (also a professor who goes on a quest for the Holy Grail. But much more interesting. Why have someone who looks like Harrison Ford when you can have him yourself? =D ) but instead "Something far more powerful, Something that fits perfectly with everything your grandfather has been trying to tell us tonight, including all his symbolic references to the sacred feminine." \~/

Langdon flashes back to talking to his Editor about the same subject where the guy doesn't believe him either. But what is it that the editor doesn't believe, we're not told. \~/ but apparently a lot of top scholars believe it.

To distract us from this Perky Tits starts yelling at the cabbie in French, telling him to put it down. Apparently the cabbie is snitching on them. She then pulls a gun on the driver and tells him to get out. The question is, how did the cabbie know who they were?It's not like they introduced themselves to him or said anything to indicate that they were on the run. So, how does he know? And by pulling the gun on him, they just proved that he's got the right ones. After all why should they care if they're not them. \~/ . No, wait apparently the cabbie was just answering a call about the two of them. Or something... in any case Robert and Tits drive off in his cab. Which Robert immediately botches because he only drives automatics and the cab isn't one. \~/

We then go to Silas. He's in anguish because he was tricked and deceived. And he killed a nun In his pants. \~/ Which he tries to rationalize because she was working against God and scored Opus Dei. Good rationalization there buddy. \~/. He doesn't know what to do. He flashes back to him and his Bishop friend who rescued him who told him that Noah was an albino (according to Talmudic traditions this is true) and that God needs Silas to do His work.

He then beats himself. In his pants \~/ That was dull.

Drinks: Seventeen.