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A tremendous evening. Thank you.
The song "Help Me" was the one I needed to hear.
glad to be of help lawrence. you're always welcome among us.
This has nothing to do with this blog post but I can't find the earlier one that my comment will relate to. Paul and I just finished listening to the audio version of 'The Da Vinci Code' and I remember reading that someone had a strong comment about the message in the book. I put off reading it until recently b/c when it came out 'everyone' was reading it and I'm not one for popular fiction. Curiosity got the better of me and with time not permitting the best I could do was listen to it in the car on the way to and from work. If any of you ever get the chance, the audio version read by Paul Michael is outstanding. He does all the accents to perfection and he really makes the book come alive. The story is a strong and fascinating one, although the text itself disappointed me - it reads like a first or second draft. The reading really enhances the poor script, but the story is very well laid out and carefully crafted. I think its magic lies in the fact that it doesn't 'give' us the grail. The grail is, essentially, humanity and I think its purpose is to force us to find our own grail (and yet we all know that given the world we live in, literature is not going to be the deciding factor in saving humanity) I found myself unwittingly enjoying the book and not since reading Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History' have I found myself quite so engrossed in a fictional tale. I do not find it offensive toward any religion or state of human mind, more, I find it challenging and something of an impetus to understand ancient and questionable texts -- history is fascinating and always has some kind of given relevance.
As an aside, Paul as promised me that my first 'son' will be a pug dog, and I have decided to name the lucky bugger Sir Teebing, he was a great character!
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