Little Clarkie: This is like a nightmare

Da Vinci Part II: the mystery, the movie, the mania
Source: IRISH INDEPENDENT
Date: January 07, 2006

It could be over a year before The Solomon Key, the sequel to The Da Vinci
Code, finally reaches the bookshelves; but already the codology, hokum and hype
that inevitably surround Dan Brown’s work have started in earnest.

Never in publishing history has there been such feverish speculation about the
plot of a sequel. Cleverly exploiting the fascination with the work of Dan
Brown and his cultish religious themes, the publishers have dropped heavy hints
about the book for fans to decipher.

Clues can be seen on the American dust jacket of The Da Vinci Code and fans are
led on a merry dance for more clues on the internet. For the burgeoning global
population of Dan Brown maniacs, working out the plot of the upcoming novel has
become a puzzle to rival 1000 Sudokus.

Among the bewilderingly large number of experts in this field, there is a
growing consensus about the story. The Solomon Key, we are led to believe, will
be set largely in Washington, will involve a heady mixture of Mormons and masons,
and will also zone in on the secret Skull and Bones Society.

Both George W Bush and Senator John Kerry, his rival candidate at the last
presidential election, are said to be members of the Order of Skull and Bones,
which is based at Yale University. If, as seems likely, this coincidence
is featured in the new novel, it is bound to fan the flames of conspiracy
theorists. The CIA, according to speculation, is added into the mix to give
the putative story added piquancy.
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Oh LC, this is like a friggin bad dream. No more S&B stuff. It makes people insane.

Other than assuming Senator Kerry's entire life was a lie these theories make no sense. Wouldn't the debates have been the logical place to "stumble" and lose. Could anyone think Teresa would have married someone who was allied to W's values?

to think that a college society (or whatever) has the power to take over the world. I mean really, that is one bad conspiracy theory.

But there are people who are convinced that the Da Vinci thing is real. (Not the majority, but quite a few people do.) I dearly hope this book doesn't do for S&B what the Da Vinci Code did for that little Church in Scotland. (Pictures and clues are mentioned as being in this tiny little Church in Scotland. That was mentioned in the Scottish press when I was there. There was concern that this little place could not survive the tourist crunch. It's an old and delicate place. Sigh!)

is proud to be asked into this very prestigous society. He is impressed that people in power who he admired are previous members. He then enters the Navy as a handsome young sailer and in Vietnam finds that the goals of these people betray the genuine values that he absorbed as a child from his father (a diplomat) and his mother.

Using all he knew of the world, he manages at a very young age to get the attention of the press and the US Senate. He boldly articulates a call to end the war. The powers that be are then able to prevent him from entering the Congress, so he decides to go to law school to get more tools to fight the evil he knows exists. Later he is able to win a hotly contested Senate race and enters the Senate.

Using his position in the Senate, the young Senator, fights the S&B efforts to bring drugs into this country and their attempts to take over the world wide banking system that they intended to use to dominate the world for Yale. He fought hard and noblely against forces more powerful than he which took over the US government. He won the Presidential nomination and challanged S&B's appointed frontman. Although the S&B people had taken over much of the media and the voting machines, he and his lovely, compassionate, brilliant wife nearly won a victory that would enable him to expose the evil cabal.

Still he did not stop, he and his wife continued to pull on the treads of this web of conspiracy - hoping to pull everything into the open. (to be continued as it plays out)

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Would this be a believable enough plot or would it fit better in the fantasy realm where a heoric character is more the norm?

Maybe this will convinve my therapist, a diehard Kerrycrat (bless her), that the DaVinci Code crap is also B & S.

:hi: Tay!

Oh my God but the first book was popular, though. This is going to suck, if people are buying into it all. I mean, there were some interesting theories in the first book from what I understand (never did read it), but come on people. It ain't the gospel.

Who did read it? It's something of a conspiracy theory novel, isn't it? Figures.

And those poor Masons! Don't they get enough grief?

But ultimately, I don't think it's fair of Brown to zero in on an organization that still exists, even if Kerry wasn't involved. Oh those poor Yale kids. How much crap will they get for belonging to the club?

Thanks, Brown, you shmuck.

They might put in that * and Sen. Kerry were both in S&B and bring the CIA into it. Why not have 'the alien baby' show up too! (Does anyone else remember the Alien Baby thing from the tabloids. Or the expose that said * was, in fact, an alien. Okay, scratch that one, I actually sort of believe that one.) Geez, this might have made a decent X-Files episode, come to think of it.

Karynnj, love it. No one would ever believe such a noble character exists though. We live in a cyncial age, sigh! (I like your version though. A lot.)

Which aren't so much memories since people on this site keep insinuating that Kerry honestly 'threw' the election because he didn't want to 'beat' another S&B member. I like what you once posted about the insinuations related to Kerry, S&B and Yale, TayTay: people who believe Kerry's membership in that order signified anything substantive in terms of his personal, long-term career goals (especially if we're talking presently relevant goals) or the 2004 election should seek psychiatric counseling.

But honestly, isn't the proof that it was not more than a college association the fact that John Kerry and George Bush could both come out of this and be such different people with such different approaches to life and so forth.

This is scape-goating and that annoying tendency of people to pick the wrong thing to blame for problems. (Occam's Razor anyone? This is too damn complicated to be the basis of a real conspiracy. There are too many people involved.)