|
|
|
|
|
|
Your grandfather's meaning was right in front of us all along, and he left us more than enough clues to see it." Without another word, Langdon pulled a pen from his jacket pocket and rearranged the letters in each line.
O, Draconian devil! Oh, lame saint! was a perfect anagram of... Leonardo da Vinci! The Mona Lisa! CHAPTER 21 The Mona Lisa.
For an instant, standing in the exit stairwell, Sophie forgot all about trying to leave the Louvre.
Her shock over the anagram was matched only by her embarrassment at not having deciphered the message herself.
Sophie's expertise in complex cryptanalysis had caused her to overlook simplistic word games, and yet she knew she should have seen it.
After all, she was no stranger to anagrams--especially in English.
|