Da Vinci – The Truth Shall Set You Free

As the most of the people I know that have read it and liked it or disliked it; confrunting the darkness of the night in the literary sense, I finished Brown’s book, in a haste to get it through, to see what it has in stock, to be sure if I wanted to watch the mouvie or I’d rather pass it. The thriller was not such a thriller, rather a manifest of the desire of humanity for tricks and schemes, for mystery and the world-wide conspiration, I sometimes agree, we are enclosed to. The world of cryptology and masonic-like organisations is a subject that has always arose controversy and moreover the desire to get where no one has been before. The secret organisations, laic or religious, are to be blamed for everything, for we are not much than their puppets and our minds is created on patterns well-founded before our birth. But if there is a lie and if someone knows the truth, what are the reasons for the truth to be kept secret?

‘And the truth shall set you free!’. I am wondering what kind of freedom will the truth give us. The same illusion of the Holy Graal or the insight of a world long time lost. If the Sangreal is a woman, than the Truth is…The Man. ‘So dark the con of man’ – maybe so enlightening the cup of the woman. And here we question all the basis of our everyday life. Would I search for the Graal in order to find Mary? No way! Actually the quest is set around Jesus. People want to know his story, because in the end he is the main character, the plot, the climax and the conclusion of humanity. As I always say about art and its masterpieces. It’s just a matter of perspective. One can dismiss everything on the basis of a fictional work. The other side of the moon is to question our beliefs and to test our faith. If the test is objective and the faith passes it, than we can be happy that we know how to believe strongly, not neccesary that we know…something.

The Art of Our Century

It might be just another way to show off, to make a stand, to break the rules or it can be a form of a modern art, which is nowadays less understood. A beautiful art, but only a lifetime resistance. Why? Because in the grave, there is no art only decomposing. Till then, the painting is just another symbol.

The elements in the tatoos can be heathen or holy. It says something about the skin it is one…or more exactly about the owner of that skin.

You can tatoo anything…as long as you feel confortable with it, both with the area of the body and with the message of the drawing. The interesting part will be a museum of tatoos. Some of us are anyhow walking museums of their own experiences crafted in their own bodies.

The Drop of Eternity

Shuffling through books and through lists of valuable books, I have found this list published by The Observer, of  the 100 greatest novels of all times. The list of course can be polished and titles can be added to it easily. The letter effects below are my own representation of the books. Bold and underlined means that I have read the books. Italics that I have started to read them but from various reasons have given up. The rest is a wish list for me to make the list all red.  

 1. Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
 2. Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
 3. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
 4. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
 5. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
 6. Clarissa, Samuel Richardson
 7. Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne
 8. Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
 9. Emma, Jane Austen
 10. Frankenstein Mary Shelley  11. Nightmare Abbey, Thomas Love Peacock
 12. The Black Sheep, Honore De Balzac
 13. The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal
 14. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
 15. Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli
 16. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
 17. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
 18. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
 19. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
 20. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
 21. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
 22. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
 23. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
 24.Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
 25. Little Women, Louisa M. Alcott
 26. The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
 27. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
 28. Daniel Deronda, George Eliot
 29. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
 30. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
 31. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
 32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
 33. Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
 34. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
 35. The Diary of a Nobody, George Grossmith
 36. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
 37. The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
 38. The Call of the Wild, Jack London
 39. Nostromo, Joseph Conrad
 40. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
 41. In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
 42. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence
 43. The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
 44. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
 45. Ulysses, James Joyce
 46. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
 47. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster
 48. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
 49. The Trial, Franz Kafka
 50. Men Without Women, Ernest Hemingway
 51. Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
 52. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
 53. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
 54. Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
 55. USA, John Dos Passos
 56. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
 57. The Pursuit Of Love, Nancy Mitford
 58. The Plague, Albert Camus
 59. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
 60. Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
 61. Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
 62. Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
 63.Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
 64. The Lord Of The Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
 65. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
 66. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
 67. The Quiet American, Graham Greene
 68 On the Road, Jack Kerouac
 69. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
 70. The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
 71. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
 72. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
 73. To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
 74. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
 75. Herzog, Saul Bellow
 76. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 77. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor
 78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre
 79. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
 80. The Bottle Factory Outing, Beryl Bainbridge
 81. The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer
 82. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino
 83. A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul
 84. Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee
 85. Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
 86. Lanark, Alasdair Gray
 87. The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
 88. The BFG, Roald Dahl
 89. The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
 90. Money, Martin Amis
 91. An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro
 92. Oscar And Lucinda, Peter Carey
 93. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
 94. Haroun and the Sea af Stories, Salman Rushdie
 95. La Confidential, James Ellroy
 96. Wise Children, Angela Carter
 97. Atonement, Ian McEwan
 98. Northern Lights, Philip Pullman
 99. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
100.Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald