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Medicine, Electronic Communications, Space Travel, Genetic Manipulation . . . These Are The Miracles About Which We Now Tell Our Children. These Are The Miracles We Herald As Proof That Science Will Bring Us The Answers. The Ancient Stories Of Immaculate Conceptions, Burning Bushes, And Parting Seas Are No Longer Relevant. God Has Become Obsolete. Science Has Won The Battle.

Despite Langdon’s Six-foot Frame And Athletic Build, Anderson Saw None Of The Cold, Hardened Edge He Expected From A Man Famous For Surviving An Explosion At The Vatican And A Manhunt In Paris. This Guy Eluded The French Police…in Loafers? He Looked More Like Someone Anderson Would Expect To Find Hearthside In Some Ivy League Library Reading Dostoyevsky.

One Final Bit Of Advice. The Next Time A Senior Administrator Of The Cia Tells You She Has A National-security Crisis Leave The Bullshit In Cambridge.

Force A Hand, The Voice Warned, And It Will Fight You. But Convince A Mind To Think As You Want It To Think, And You Have An Ally.

Authors, He Thought. Even The Sane Ones Are Nuts.