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The Da Vinci Code, Cracked

An uncreative villanelle

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Noah Berlatsky
Feb 24, 2023
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I’ve been writing a series of villanelles using chopped up quotes from various book. I did one on Nick Bostum’s Superintelligence, one on Trump’s The Art of the Deal, one diet book…and the one here from Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.

Not sure what I’ll ultimately do with these. It seems…unlikely anyone would publish them, so I may put them into an ebook at some point? We’ll see. But in the meantime, if you’re a paid subscriber, the poem is below the paywall there. If you’re not…well, what are you waiting for?

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