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June 22, 2005

Laurence - Questo spazio in bianco intenzionalmente lasciato della pagina

Podcast of this storyAfter the DaVinci Code came out, everything Galileo ever wrote or painted was searched for hidden messages. X-Rays, magnetic waves, deep-radar signals, and refractive lasers wobbled the molecules to and fro until the researchers declared there was nothing to find.

Or as they say in Italy: "Niente!"

Then someone realized that Galileo invented the "This page intentionally left blank" page.

That someone was me.

Know what you get when you rip all those blank pages from his diaries and journals, rub them with a lemon, and hold a match up to them?

Arrested.

But now I know God's shoe size.

Comments

BLASPHEMY!

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I knew I should have done the necronomicon.

Posted by: Laurence Simon at June 22, 2005 08:56 AM · Permalink · Rate It: + / -   Current Rating: $num_of_min1rates) {$cur_rate="+".$cur_rate;} } elseif ($num_of_rates==0) { $cur_rate=0;} echo $cur_rate; ?>

So I’m sitting in the Smithsonian Institute with acetone-resistant gloves, pouring over the onionskin memoirs of Millard Fillmore. Something about the ignominious nature of the thirteenth President cries out for a cryptic scavenger hunt. Something tells me I’ll be avoiding the Louvre, or Paris, or the Vatican.

I feel the incidental anagrams, palindromes, and literary backward masking is leading me to an equally ignominious denouement; first, to a little known manuscript, known as Penmanship, and second— Starbucks, where a double Latte may help fight the narcoleptic vortex into which one is plunged when researching the private papers of Millard Fillmore.

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