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Chapter 97

           TheTeacherhadbeenscrutinizingthemonumentfortenminutesnow.

           Newton’stombconsistedofamassiveblack-marblesarcophagusonwhichreclinedthesculptedformofSirIsaacNewton,wearingclassicalcostume,andleaningproudlyagainstastackofhisownbooksDivinity,Chronology,Opticks,andPhilosophiaeNaturalisPrincipiaMathematica.AtNewton’sfeetstoodtwowingedboysholdingascroll.BehindNewton’srecumbentbodyroseanausterepyramid.Althoughthepyramiditselfseemedanoddity,itwasthegiantshapemountedhalfwayupthepyramidthatmostintriguedtheTeacher.

           Anorb.

           TheTeacherponderedSaunière’sbeguilingriddle.Youseektheorbthatoughtbeonhistomb.Themassiveorbprotrudingfromthefaceofthepyramidwascarvedinbasso-relievoanddepictedallkindsofheavenlybodiesconstellations,signsofthezodiac,comets,stars,andplanets.Aboveit,theimageoftheGoddessofAstronomybeneathafieldofstars.

           Countlessorbs.

           TheTeacherhadbeenconvincedthatoncehefoundthetomb,discerningthemissingorbwouldbeeasy.Nowhewasnotsosure.Hewasgazingatacomplicatedmapoftheheavens.Wasthereamissingplanet?Hadsomeastronomicalorbbeenomittedfromaconstellation?Hehadnoidea.Evenso,theTeachercouldnothelpbutsuspectthatthesolutionwouldbeingeniouslycleanandsimple«aknightapopeinterred.»WhatorbamIlookingfor?Certainly,anadvancedknowledgeofastrophysicswasnotaprerequisiteforfindingtheHolyGrail,wasit?

           ItspeaksofRosyfleshandseededwomb.

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