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Chapter 20

           Thegame’stwenty-twocardsborenameslikeTheFemalePope,TheEmpress,andTheStar.Originally,TarothadbeendevisedasasecretmeanstopassalongideologiesbannedbytheChurch.Now,Tarot’smysticalqualitieswerepassedonbymodernfortune-tellers.

           TheTarotindicatorsuitforfemininedivinityispentacles,Langdonthought,realizingthatifSaunièrehadbeenstackinghisgranddaughter’sdeckforfun,pentacleswasanaproposinsidejoke.

           Theyarrivedattheemergencystairwell,andSophiecarefullypulledopenthedoor.Noalarmsounded.Onlythedoorstotheoutsidewerewired.SophieledLangdondownatightsetofswitchbackstairstowardthegroundlevel,pickingupspeedastheywent.

           «Yourgrandfather,»Langdonsaid,hurryingbehindher,»whenhetoldyouaboutthepentacle,didhementiongoddessworshiporanyresentmentoftheCatholicChurch?»

           Sophieshookherhead.«IwasmoreinterestedinthemathematicsofittheDivineProportion,PHI,Fibonaccisequences,thatsortofthing.»

           Langdonwassurprised.«YourgrandfathertaughtyouaboutthenumberPHI?»

           «Ofcourse.TheDivineProportion.»Herexpressionturnedsheepish.«Infact,heusedtojokethatIwashalfdivine…youknow,becauseofthelettersinmyname.»Langdonconsidereditamomentandthengroaned.

           s-o-PHI-e.

           Stilldescending,LangdonrefocusedonPHI.HewasstartingtorealizethatSaunière’sclueswereevenmoreconsistentthanhehadfirstimagined.

           DaVinci…Fibonaccinumbers…thepentacle.

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