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So I finally got around to reading The Da Vinci Code. I must be the last person on Earth to read this. It wasn’t the best thing I ever read or anything, but it was definitely a fun read. I dug the numerous homages to the Indiana Jones series. Shades of Agatha Christie and story ‘beats’ akin to those in script-writing. Dude totally intended for this to become a movie. They even mentioned one of my top five favorite painters, Carravaggio!
Afterwards, I ended up opening up my old notes from art history classes to check out what I wrote about The Last Supper and the Madonna on the Rocks as well as other paintings and works not in the movie but had similar entries. Then I cracked open some math notebooks from high school on the Fibonacci sequence, matrices, and other crap. I forgot how much I loved math! Checked out the History Channel special on the book and a maybe!BBC one. The maybe!BBC was totally anti-book, but I’m glad it was.
So yeah, this thing got me on a kick to look up stuff during this era again…just like when I went through my Rome phase. Alas, I’ve since gotten distracted by the Discovery channel’s coverage on fucking manta rays and tracking. It was in HD so I got mesmerized by the pretty pictures and before I knew it, I was sucked in.