Thursday, March 31, 2005

DA VINCI CODE CODE: According to the Electric New Paper in Singapore, the Da Vinci Code has a quotation from the book of (1?) Enoch encoded in the introduction.
THE Doubleday hardcover edition of Dan Brown's bestselling puzzlethon contains a coded message quoted from the biblical Apocrypha's Book of Enoch.

Brown (left) has revealed that the message hints at the plot for his next book. His fans have responded with their wallets.

To see the code, open the book to the introduction on the dust jacket, and copy down every bolded letter.

Add spaces where appropriate, and you will be able to read the mysterious and slightly eerie sentence.

I'm afraid I don't own a copy of the Da Vinci Code but perhaps a reader has it handy and can tell us what the Enoch verse is?

UPDATE: Carla Sulzbach, who doesn't have the book either, e-mails this link, which says that the encoded sentence is "Is there no help for the widow's son?" But this sentence isn't in 1 Enoch or in 2 Enoch (follow the links and search them yourself) and I'm quite sure it's not in 3 Enoch either. A little Googling brings up sites that connect it with Freemansonry and Mormonism. If you want to know more about that, I'll leave you to track it down yourself. But if that's the embedded sentence, the Enoch connection isn't there. It's remarkable how the Enochic attribution is just repeated without anyone bothering to go look it up in the book of Enoch. Sigh.

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