Bringing fiction to life with Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code Something marvelous happened in 2003: the plot of a 15-year old novel became reality. In 1988, Umberto Eco published Foucault’s Pendulum, in which three bored editors at a Milan publishing house—Jacopo Belbo, Casaubon, and Diotallevi—come up with the idea of a global conspiracy that would…
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