The Symbology of Secret Sects by Professor Robert Langdon
Author: Professor Robert Langdon
Publisher: Not known
Source book: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
What with all his adventuring and (presumably) teaching at Harvard, it’s hard to know how Professor Robert Langdon manages to write quite so many books. And all that correspondence he seems to keep up with academics all over the world too... According to Wikipedia, between The Da Vinci Code,The Lost Symbol and Inferno, Professor Langdon has written 7 books:
The Symbology of Secret Sects;
The Art of the Illuminati: part 1 [hey, whatever happened to part 2?]
The Lost Language of Ideograms;
Religious Iconology;
Christianity and the Sacred Feminine, which is mentioned in Origin: apparently it was denounced by the Vatican and in the aftermath of the denunciation promptly became a bestseller;
Symbols of the Lost Sacred Feminine, which created quite a scandal;
and Christian Symbols in the Muslim World.
Who can say what The Symbology of Secret Sects might be about? Wikipedia assures me that Symbology does not exist. “It’s a fictional field related to the study of historic symbols which is not methodologically connected to the actual discipline of semiotics.” So there we are.
I expect Professor Langdon has lots of fans who don’t really care if Symbology doesn’t actually exist. But here’s the thing: I can’t quite believe that one of my best friends believes the world is ruled by 13 mysterious families. It’s something Professor Langdon might be able to help her with. She seems quite normal most of the time, walking her dog and being kind and generous to her friends, but she does get a bit twitchy if you ask too many questions about The Da Vinci Code. It can’t be just her though can it?
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| Images borrowed from the internet ““The Vitruvian Man,” Langdon gasped.” Obviously I don’t know any of the right people. Absolutely nobody I know ever writes anything in code. Oh dear. |
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