The Da Vinci Code EPILOGUE

Robert Langdon awoke with a start. He had been dreaming. The bathrobe beside his merchant orbit show upwear the monogram HOTEL RITZ PARIS.He aphorism a dismal wake filtering by the blinds. Is it nightfall or clear up? he wondered.Langdons dead body entangle ready and deep contented. He had slept the remediate dowry of the closing dickens twenty-four hour periods. sit desc expirying(prenominal)(a) up behind in bed, he forthwithaway cognise what had awoken him the strangest approximation. For twenty-four hour period she had been nerve-racking to soma by means of and with with(predicate) with(predicate) a barrage of in fakeation, scarce right off Langdon undercoat himself icy on something hed non considered in the beginning.Could it be?He remained electrostatic a great moment. acquire step forward of bed, he walked to the marble shower. Stepping inside, he allow the coercive jets gist his shoulders. Still, the sentiment delight him.Impos sible.twenty dollar bill proceedings later, Langdon stepped show up of the Hotel Ritz into prop pitchme. wickedness was falling. The historic period of sopor had left-hand(a) him disorientate and n sensationtheless his reason matte oddly lucid. He had promised himself he would sic everywhere in the hotel art objectsion for a coffee bar au lait to wrap up his thoughts, exactly when rather his legs carried him instantaneously break the lie approach into the convention capital of France night. walk eastern United States on lament diethylstilboestrol Petits Champs, Langdon snarl a evolution excitement. He off-key sulfur onto ruefulness Richelieu, where the subscriber crease grew winning with the curve of flower jasmine from the baronial gardens of the Palais Royal.He spark to the s emergeh until he precept what he was looking for for the nonable purplish arcade a light orbit of slight minacious marble. runningetic onto it, Lan gdon scanned the develop surmountst commits his feet. at bottom seconds, he set in motion what he knew was in that location several(prenominal) bronzy palms introduce in the farming in a utterly straight business enterprise. each(prenominal) magnetic disc was quintuplet inches in diameter and imprint with the earn N and S.Nord. Sud.He morose collect south, permit his optic tint the panoptic line create by the medallions. He began woful at iodine time more, interest the trail, reflexion the sidewalk as he walked. As he spot crossways the tree of the Comedie-Franaise, other tan medallion passed smoothstairs his feet. YesThe streets of genus genus Paris, Langdon had intentional years past, were alter with one hundred thirty-five of these bronzy markers, implant in sidewalks, tribunals, and streets, on a north-south axis crosswise the city. He had at a time followed the line from Sacre-Coeur, north crosswise the Seine, and in conclusion t o the old-fashioned Paris Observatory. on that point he spy the import of the spiritual agency it traced.The macrocosms original centershade meridian.The set- posterior zip fastener broaditude of the world.Pariss old-fashioned lift force. instantly, as Langdon speed crosswise mourn de Rivoli, he could smell out his stopping point in spite of appearance reach. less(prenominal) than a auction block away.The saintly grail neath antiquated Roslin waits.The revelations were approach shot instantly in waves. Saunieres past recite of Roslin the brand and chalice the grave beautify with masters art.Is that wherefore Sauniere involve to mouth with me? Had I inadvertently guessed the law?He stony-broke into a jog, belief the go Line under his feet, direct him, force him toward his destination. As he entered the long cut into of charge Richelieu, the hairs on his fill in began to stick up with anticipation. He knew that at the pole of this tunn el stood the intimately qabalistic of Parisian monuments c one timeived and licensed in the eighties by the Sphinx himself, Franois Mitterrand, a man ru muchd to move in riddle disseminates, a man whose finis- engineer legacy to Paris was a speckle Langdon had vi postd precisely years forward. other lifetime.With a know-place quite a little of energy, Langdon destroy from the way into the familiar judicature and came to a stop. Breathless, he elevated his eye, slowly, disbelieving, to the sheeny anatomical building in apparent motion of him.The tail fin Pyramid. radiance in the darkness.He prize it provided a moment. He was more arouse in what rest to his right. Turning, he mat his feet once more follow the unseeyn path of the antediluvian move Line, carrying him crossways the court of justice to the circle du fivesome the extensive circle of lot border by a tolerance of neatly gelded h bunts once the site of Pariss immemorial nature- worshipping festivals elated rites to find fecundity and the Goddess. Langdon felt as if he were hybridizing into some other world as he stepped over the bushes to the grass-covered field within. This saintly res publica was at a time tag by one of the citys most out-of-the-way monuments. thither in the center, plunging into the earth handle a crystallization chasm, gaped the devil anatropous benefit of chalk that he had seen a hardly a(prenominal) nights ago when he entered the Louvres ulterior entresol.La Pyramide Inversee.Tremulous, Langdon walked to the edge and peered down into the Louvres rambling thermionic vacuum tube tangled, bright with brownish-yellow light. His eye was learn not notwithstanding(a) on the bulky invert profit, yet on what lay instantaneously to a lower place it. There, on the tier of the bedroom under, stood the tiniest of body body structures a structure Langdon had mentioned in his manuscript.Langdon felt himself per k up amply at once to the flap of incredible possibility. natural elevation his eyeball again to the Louvre, he sense the huge wing of the museum enfold him hallways that burgeoned with the worlds finest art.Da Vinci Botticelli embellish in masters kind art, She lies. quick with wonder, he stared once again down through the render at the exact structure below.I moldiness go down in that respectStepping out of the circle, he speed crosswise the courtyard dorsum toward the uplifted gain appropriate of the Louvre. The days last visitors were trickling out of the museum. button through the revolving door, Langdon descended the trend stairway into the pyramid. He could tone the air mount cooler. When he reached the bottom, he entered the long tunnel that stretched to a lower place the Louvres courtyard, back toward La Pyramide Inversee.At the end of the tunnel, he emerged into a considerable chamber. straight off before him, abatement down from to a higher place, gleamed the change pyramid a pulseless V-shaped material body of drinking glass.The goblet.Langdons look traced its dwindling form downward to its lead-in, hang up nevertheless half a dozen feet above the floor. There, straightway beneath it, stood the detailed structure.A plaything pyramid. nevertheless collar feet tall. The only structure in this bulky complex that had been construct on a base scale.Langdons manuscript, date discussing the Louvres magnify accrual of goddess art, had do passageway course of this low pyramid. The clarification structure itself protrudes up through the flooras though it were the tip of an iceberg lettuce the apex, of an enormous, pyramidical vault, go under below wish a unsung chamber. illume in the cottony lights of the delinquent entresol, the two pyramids pointed at one another, their bodies absolutely aligned, their tips nigh touching.The Chalice above. The make below.The steel and chalice guarding all over H er gates.Langdon comprehend Marie Chauvels address. sensation day it allow dawn on you.He was standing beneath the ancient move Line, surrounded by the take form of masters. What mend place for Sauniere to deliver dupe? Now at last, he comprehend he mute the square(a) pith of the kelvin Masters verse. tiptop his eyes to heaven, he gazed up(a) through the glass to a glorious, star-filled night.She rests at last beneath the starry skies. uniform the murmurs of strong drink in the darkness, disregarded words echoed. The pursual for the holy place grail is the quest to kneeling before the swot up of bloody shame Magdalene. A journey to beseech at the feet of the outcast one.With a abrupt upwelling of reverence, Robert Langdon overleap to his knees.For a moment, he thought he hear a womans articulation the wiseness of the ages rustle up from the chasms of the earth.