Dan Brown
May 06th, 2009 by Jeeves
I regret, sir, that I was forced to give your advance copy of The Lost Symbol to a deserving elevator attendant. Young gentlemen’s tastes will run to lurid popular fiction involving the Mormons but the entertainment in question is not at all suitable leisure reading, sir. Riders of the Purple Sage or Sign of the Four in a tasteful bound volume would be much more fitting. I have placed copies by your bedside. Thank you, sir.
Ivan Wolfe
May 7, 2009
Why “Sign of the Four.” If I recall correctly, it was “A Study in Scarlet” that has the applicable content. Unless there’s something I’m missing, as “Study” dealt with Mormons and “Sign” dealt with sailors in India. I don’t recall sailors in India playing a big part in “Purple Sage” and Dan Brown hasn’t indicated any appear in “Symbol.”
Adam Greenwood
May 7, 2009
Bartleby incorrectly transcribed Jeeves’ dictum. We regret the error.
Ivan Wolfe
May 7, 2009
Well, now I’m impressed you got Bartleby to transcribe anything. I hear he usually would rather not.
Pecos Bill
May 7, 2009
He responds to mah gentle ‘suasion.
John Sabotta
May 11, 2009
As a Catholic, I assume any Dan Brown book will be Newagey conspiritorial rubbish, and will no doubt slander the LDS in much the same stupid and ineffectual way.
As for a “Study in Scarlet”, I remember a FARMS article mocking that book for it’s ridiculous ignorance of LDS organization – Conan Doyle just made up various “Committes of Forty” and “Councils of 100″ or whatever. I wiah I could find that article again, as it had a hilarious excerpt from an Egyptian newspaper alleging a sinister Jewish-Catholic-Mormon conspiracy to take over the Middle East. Which actually doesn’t sound like a bad idea…
Adam Greenwood
May 11, 2009
So long as it were sinister. Otherwise, count me out.
Ivan Wolfe
May 11, 2009
How come I never get invited to join these sinister conspiracies?
Adam Greenwood
May 13, 2009
Ivan W.,
just an oversight, sorry. But in the future, please make sure that your Danite Band emails aren’t getting caught in your spam filter. Simple steps like these are what makes a sinister conspiracy 6-Sigma compliant.