A Wacky Times Exclusive
Investigative Breakthrough!
While
most fans of the runaway hit novel, The Da Vinci Code,
are intrigued to follow the main characters as they
unravel secret codes surrounding the ancient Holy
Grail, few readers realize there are still more codes
encrypted within the novel itself. With thousands
of experts worldwide dissecting the book, only the
scholars at Wacky Times have managed to crack the
novel’s code, which is nothing less than the
secret to the composition of the universe…
It’s… the musical scale.
Consider
the names of the principle characters in The Da Vinci
Code:
Leonardo Da Vinci, Renaissance artist
Rémy, the butler
Bezu Fache, captain the French Central Judicial Police
Sophie Neveu, the cryptologist
Robert Langdon, the Harvard professor
Leigh Teabing, the wealthy Grail enthusiast
Now
consider the notes from the musical scale:do, re mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do:
Do
=
Leonardo
Da Vinci
Re,
Mi =
Rémy
Fa
=
Fache
So
=
Sophie
La
=
Langdon
Ti
=
Teabing
Do
=
And,
of course, everything in the book returns to Leonardo
Our
resident literary scholar, Ralph Waldo Loop, calculates
that the odds are of this being a coincidence are roughly
1.99 gazillion-trillion to one, or about the same as a
literary scholar being able to complete that calculation.
The notes of the musical octave are considered by some
students of the cosmos to represent more than musical
notes. They’re considered to represent the various
frequency of vibrations within our universe, and are
therefore the keys to some of life's most deeply-hidden
mysteries.
In astrology, for instance, it is widely recognized
that each musical note corresponds to an astronomical
entity: do (Mars); re (Sun); mi (Mercury); fa (Saturn);
sol (Jupiter); la (Venus); and ti (Moon).
So are these names in The Da Vinci Code coincidence?
Or do they reveal the subtle playfulness of a novelist
who is clearly fascinated by cryptology and matters
esoteric?
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