Drilling for Da Vinci

Some people think there’s a Da Vinci painting on the other side of a fresco-laden wall in Florence. They want to drill through the fresco to get to it. Others want to preserve the fresco. “Vasari [who painted The Battle of Marciano in Val di Chiana in 1563] knew how to remove works by other people [meaning Da Vinci’s abandoned work on the same wall] while keeping them intact. What sense would there have been sealing up the Da Vinci, unless you get into childish Dan Brown logic?”

Ah, Mr. Brown. You have sealed your name in history, haven’t you?

One thought on “Drilling for Da Vinci”

  1. A guy I know on a forum likes to smash together titles from different genres. This is one of his most recent.


    Encyclopedia Dan Brown

    Young genius solves crimes around town with a combination of deductive reasoning and obscure, if not esoteric, knowledge.

    Unfortunately his efforts result in the arrest of innocent suspects because the reasoning is often flawed and much of the obscure knowledge is false if not absurd. This is obvious to the reader but not to any of the characters.

    Lucius Alexander

    He also made one recently where he smashed together elements of Lovecraft and the Peanuts. We’ll just skip that one.

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