I enjoyed it for what it was - a fictional novel. The female side-kick was presumably included on the insistence of the publisher (sex sells, remember) - the only bits of his books that make me groan are the awful anagrams of friends and colleagues he uses for characters names. What I find laughable is the consternation its met with the church. They objected to Monty Python's Holy Grail, Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ, and now they're (partly) objecting to the Da Vinci Code - don't they realise by doing this that they're actually pouring chip-pan fat on the fires of cover-up and conspiracy theorists everywhere? If they just said "hey, it's only a book - I read it on holiday as well", they'd probably do a lot better... -----Original Message----- From: klf-bounces+chris=k23productions.com@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:klf-bounces+chris=k23productions.com@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of John Milne Sent: 06 May 2006 10:58 To: All bound for Mu-Mu Land. Subject: Re: [KLF] dabbling in forces... Possibly this is a reference to the 'lost chord' from "Bad Wisdom"? Remember that King Boy's dad was (is?) a pretty unconventional Church of Scotland minister, with his anti-apartheid stance in South Africa when Bill was born out there. And Bill's love of myth, self-myth and legend must have come from somewhere - where better than an unconventional minister Dad? I suppose it's JUST possible that the Rev Jack Drummond used to tell young William stories about the myths and legends of the Scottish Church ... ... on the other hand, whenever anyone mentions Rosslyn Chapel now, I just groan. I read the "Da Vinci" code about a year ago, and despite drawing on some interesting (but hardly new) alternative Christian stories, the writing in it is DREADFUL. Sophie Evenue (played by Audrey Tatou in the film) is the most weakly-drawn female character I have read in a long time, and the whole thing reads like what it is - a pulp thriller, very 1970s and a bit "Wilbur Smith" in style. Dan Brown's tendency to write supposition as fact is also pretty annoying. Still, the movie will make loads of money, so no one cares. And the cash-in novels by other writers are entertaining: things with titles like "The Michaelangelo Code", "Picasso's Puzzle", "Warhol's Whatthefuck?" and "Rowlandson and Hogarth's Really Hard Sums". :-) John
Message Received: May 06 2006, 10:23 AM From: "Daniel Erlemann" <daniel@klf.de> To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: Subject: Re: [KLF] dabbling in forces...
So what?
Pretty interesting but I don't quite see the KLF reference...
Dan
Am 05.05.2006 um 17:33 schrieb xe non:
http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=627062006
ROSSLYN Chapel holds many secrets. For hundreds of years experts and visitors alike have puzzled over the carvings in the chapel. Whilst some debate whether they point to hidden treasure, Edinburgh composer Stuart Mitchell thinks he has cracked one part of the enigma. He believes that the ornate ceiling of carved arches, featuring 213 decorated cubes holds a code for medieval music. His father Thomas Mitchell spent 20 years cracking this code in the ceiling and now Stuart is orchestrating the findings for a new recording called The Rosslyn Motet. They hope that the music, when played on medieval instruments in situ, will resonate throughout the chapel unlocking a secret in the stone.[snip]
If this science was used in the carvings at Rosslyn, then there needs to be an explanation of how this information came to be lost for centuries. According to Mitchell, the Church suppressed the knowledge as a means of controlling the public. "What it points towards is the church system denying people certain knowledge because knowledge is awareness. People who knew too much were burnt as witches."
Interestingly the Devil's Chord - diabolus in musica - makes an appearance in the music.
"In the ceiling is this jump of an augmented fourth, in fact it opens up with an augmented fourth," says Mitchell. The Catholic Church had banned this interval (seven semitones) from medieval music as it was believed to be disturbing and therefore diabolical. Perhaps St Clair was indeed challenging the authority of the church.
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