Sunday, October 24, 2004
mea culpa
And as always there is the occasional politically-incorrect, xenophobic jibes at other nations' icons of national pride and worth.Now on the Effiel Tower:
'She is the symbol of France. I think she is perfect.'
Langdon nodded absently. Symbologists often remarked that France - a country renowned for machismo, womanizing and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short - could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.
The da Vinci Code, Dan Brown, where our lead is reflecting on the beauties of his host country.
... as always there will be someone who shares the same ideas as you but has gotten ahead in terms of putting it down in words.
lux at 1:44 pm