The Da Vinci Code, 2003The Da Vinci Code, 2003久々に売り上げベスト１０に翻訳書が載りました。
本屋で翻訳書の１章を立ち読みし，せっかくの機会だからと読み始めました。７月でしたが，アメリカ・サンフランシスコから短期留学生として滞在していた男子生徒がこのハードカバーの最後の部分をむさぼるように読んでいる姿に出くわしました。その時は実は，これがアメリカの大ベストセラーとは知らなかったのです。そんな偶然も重なって，アマゾンマーケットプレイスで購入。読後は同じくマーケットプレイスに出品して売りました。
アマゾンのレビューに誰か書いていましたが，「バラの名前」を思い出しました。起きた事件はたいしたことはないのですが，それに関するレクチャーが大変長くて，何かキリスト教の講義を受けている感じになりました。実際の時間は１日強というところ，この間にパリ-ロンドンｰエジンバラと主人公たちが移動します。ちょっと都合が良すぎない，というところがあったり，そもそも，なぜ，殺人の嫌疑をかけられたハーバード大学教授Robert Langdonが逃避行に走らなければならないのか，今ひとつピンと来ませんでした。
英文そのものも最近読んだペーパーバックが易しすぎたのか，決して易しい部類ではありませんでした。
albino
One
mile away, the hulking albino named Silas limped through the front gate
of the luxurious brownstone residence on Rue La Bruyere.
白子,アルビノ:先天性色素欠乏症の人［動物，植物］
widow's peak
His dark hair was slicked back with oil, accentuating an arrow-like widow's peak
that divided his jutting brow and preceded him like the prow of a battleship.
女性の額の髪のV字形のはえぎわ,「富士額」
Not only did Sauniere have a personal
passion for relics relating to fertility, goddess cults, Wicca, and the sacred
feminine, but during his twenty-year tenure as curator, Sauniere had helped the
Louvre amass the largest collection of goddess art on earth- labrys axes from
the priestesses' oldest Greek shrine in Delphi, gold caducei wands, hundreds of
Tjet ankhs resembling small standing angels, sistrum rattles used in ancient
Egypt to dispel evil spirits, and an astonishing array of statues depicting
Horns being nursed by the goddess Isis.
gemmata
The symbol was known as a crux gemmata---a
cross bearing thirteen gems-a Christian ideogram for Christ and His twelve
apostles.
Opus Dei
The Church of Saint-Sulpice
The Church of Saint-Sulpice, it is said, has the most eccentric history of any building in
Fibonacci sequence
"The Fibonacci sequence? The P.S.? All
the Da Vinci and goddess symbolism? That had to be my grandfather?'
フィボナッチ数
Langdon was surprised. "Your grandfather taught you about the number PHI?"
As Langdon loaded his slide projector,
he explained that the number PHI was derived from the Fibonacci sequence---a
progression famous not only because the sum of adjacent terms equaled the next
term, but because the quotients of adjacent terms possessed the astonishing
property of approaching the number 1.618-PHI!
Les Demoiselles d '
In fact, one of his anagrams had
gotten him in trouble once when Sophie was a little girl. While being
interviewed by an American art magazine, Sauniere had expressed his distaste for
the modernist Cubist movement by noting that Picasso's masterpiece Les Demoiselles d
'Avignon was a perfect anagram of vile meaningless doodles.
Hawker 731
The Hawker 731's twin Garrett TFE-731 engines thundered, powering the plane skyward with gut-wrenching force.
Lieutenant Collet helped himself to a Perrier from Teabing's refrigerator and strode back out through the drawing room.
Remy approached up the aisle now, the Heckler and Koch pistol cradled in his hand.
Roquefort
Occasionally, customs agents accepted large tips from Teabing in exchange for turning a blind eye to the transport of harmless organics---mostly luxury foods-French escargots, a particularly ripe unprocessed Roquefort, certain fruits.
He went to the limousine's wet bar, where he poured himself a Smirnoff vodka.
J-frame Medusa
The gun in his hand was a concealable, small-caliber, J-frame Medusa, but it would be plenty deadly at close range.
Rosslyn Chapel
The Knights Templar had designed Rosslyn Chapel as an exact architectural blueprint of
Solomon's
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