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The Invention of Symbology; or, Dan Brown, Part 2 (Angels and Demons & The Da Vinci Code) with Pseud Dionysius MPH

Outsider Theory

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Angels and Demons - The Catholic Church and Its Challenges of Succession

In some ways, the catholic church is explicitly about succession. It's a kind of elite that has perpetuated itself in quite a different way than the american elite. So we have these two sort of odd lineages that make up the central am. Sot, on one hand we have a physicist priest with an adoptive daughter. On the other hand, we have a pope. And so the pope and the physicist priest both die at the beginning of the narrative. Am, the physicist priest has the adoptive daughter. The pope has a and i tf, produced a son who n and so in a sense, you know, they are somehow the children - camerlango and vitor

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