http://www.georgewashingtonwired.org/2009/09/24/are-you-looking-for-the-lost-symbol-its-not-here/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:19:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.georgewashingtonwired.org/2009/09/24/are-you-looking-for-the-lost-symbol-its-not-here/comment-page-1/#comment-2852 Shannon Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:32:56 +0000 http://www.georgewashingtonwired.org/?p=639#comment-2852 Nancy, like Paul said, it's fiction, 'nuff said. Nancy, like Paul said, it’s fiction, ‘nuff said.

]]> http://www.georgewashingtonwired.org/2009/09/24/are-you-looking-for-the-lost-symbol-its-not-here/comment-page-1/#comment-2655 Victor Poelzer Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:29:26 +0000 http://www.georgewashingtonwired.org/?p=639#comment-2655 Hidden in allegory; Illustrated by novels. Hidden in allegory; Illustrated by novels.

]]> http://www.georgewashingtonwired.org/2009/09/24/are-you-looking-for-the-lost-symbol-its-not-here/comment-page-1/#comment-1205 Paul Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:25:00 +0000 http://www.georgewashingtonwired.org/?p=639#comment-1205 It's a novel. Brown writes fiction. Are other novelists' works searched for "inaccuracies"? No. Why not? Because they are made up stories, ALL of which are "contrived to benefit the author". That's the point: novelists spin yarns for a living. Brown is just one of many. Don't even think of looking to novels for the kind of verifiable fact and truth you want to prove; that can't and shouldn't be done. It’s a novel. Brown writes fiction. Are other novelists’ works searched for “inaccuracies”? No. Why not? Because they are made up stories, ALL of which are “contrived to benefit the author”. That’s the point: novelists spin yarns for a living. Brown is just one of many. Don’t even think of looking to novels for the kind of verifiable fact and truth you want to prove; that can’t and shouldn’t be done.

]]> http://www.georgewashingtonwired.org/2009/09/24/are-you-looking-for-the-lost-symbol-its-not-here/comment-page-1/#comment-555 Nancy Dever Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:24:13 +0000 http://www.georgewashingtonwired.org/?p=639#comment-555 Thank you for this very appropriate response to Dan Brown's book "The Lost Symbol". I am a Bible student and found so many inaccuracies to his "Da Vinci Code" that although his writings are controversial and popular, his creditability is surely lacking. Even in a "Da Vinci Code"- age it remains important that fact still be proven (especially at Mount Vernon). Otherwise it remains opinion contrived to benefit the author. Thank you for this very appropriate response to Dan Brown’s book “The Lost Symbol”. I am a Bible student and found so many inaccuracies to his “Da Vinci Code” that although his writings are controversial and popular, his creditability is surely lacking. Even in a “Da Vinci Code”- age it remains important that fact still be proven (especially at Mount Vernon). Otherwise it remains opinion contrived to benefit the author.

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