A grailing we will go...

[morgan_dhu]

For anyone who found my previous rant about the Da Vinci Code nonsense interesting, my discussion of the literary histoy of the Holy Grail as presented in Richard Barber's book The Holy Grail: History of a Legend is up on my book journal: bibliogramma.

You know, I wouldn't have minded at all if Brown had said "This is a works of fiction. I've taken some historical people and things and reinterpreted them as is my right as a creator of works of the imagination, but this is literature, not history."

But no, he said it's all based on fact, when it simply isn't, and that makes all the difference to me.

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[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

What really worries me about that attitude is that it speaks to a general lack of curiosity about the truth. The next step, I fear, is total acceptance of whatever something considered to be authoritative says as truth. And that's the end of personal freedom, social change, and a great many other things including democracy.