{"id":513,"date":"2009-12-19T14:50:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T06:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2013-11-19T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T03:27:14","slug":"who_needs_wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2009\/12\/who_needs_wit\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs Wit And Intrigue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dan_brown_lost_symbol1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dan_brown_lost_symbol1.jpg\" alt=\"dan_brown_lost_symbol\" title=\"dan_brown_lost_symbol\" width=\"150\" height=\"198\" style=\"margin-right:8px;\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-490\" \/><\/a>Took a little lunch break, but I&#8217;m back at it.  I cooked enough food yesterday to get me through the day.  Hopefully this experiment won&#8217;t last longer.<\/p>\n<p>Some quick thoughts: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dan Brown Characters always have a strong rapport with security guards<\/li>\n<li>First intriguing tidbit I need to look up on Wikipedia:  The science of noetics.  What&#8217;s it about?<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 8, when Langdon gets the phone call from the tattooed fanatic, reminds me of the opening scene from <strong>Scream<\/strong>, without any of the intrigue or witty banter. <\/li>\n<li>Stupid literary device: Langdon sees the severed hand, but at first believes it&#8217;s a mannequin hand.  We are treated to an explanation of a <em>handequin<\/em> as the realization slowly dawns on him that it&#8217;s Peter Solomon&#8217;s severed hand. <\/li>\n<li>Prediction <a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2009\/12\/19\/the-han-solo-of-symbology-and-religious-iconography\/\">number one<\/a> turns out to be correct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The action is already starting to heat up.  So far, I&#8217;ve read 10 chapters, plus the prologue.  That&#8217;s less than 4 pages per chapter. Dan Brown likes to keep things moving.<\/p>\n<h5>Pages read: 41 <br \/>\nPages To Go: 468<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took a little lunch break, but I&#8217;m back at it. I cooked enough food yesterday to get me through the day. Hopefully this experiment won&#8217;t last longer. Some quick thoughts: Dan Brown Characters always have a strong rapport with security guards First intriguing tidbit I need to look up on Wikipedia: The science of noetics. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[423,560,561,421],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-dan-brown","tag-noetics","tag-scream","tag-the-lost-symbol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2733,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/2733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}