The Da Vinci Barcode:  A Parody

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Of course the most important book for this project was the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
The book that gave me the courage to look at the Priory of Sion as a product of its time, i.e. the 1950s, was Ronald Hutton's extraordinary history of Wicca, Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (Oxford University Press, 1999).
 

Thanks to Norris Lacy, Jean-Claude Kirwan, Allan West, and  Al Shoaf.   I am also grateful to Caroline Borge of ABC News who first asked me what I thought of Brown's book. Without her, I certainly never would have read it. The joke about a Da Vinci Bar Code has started appearing in other formats in 2006. Laurence Hughes wrote a brief parody of Brown's book, directed towards the transition to 13-digit ISBN numbers, in Publisher's Weekly, 1/2/2006: The Da Vinci Bar Code: It's time to get a clue about 1SBN-13 Also, some entrepreneur came up with a T-shirt with a Da Vinci Bar Code theme.

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