[The Solomon Key and Beyond: Dan Brown News] Dan Brown speech report

The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 12-Oct-05 - Dan Brown enthralls fans, bars media: “MANCHESTER - Even though author Dan Brown banned news media from covering his speech at a sold-out New Hampshire Humanities Council dinner last night, word got out.

‘He talked about thinking and faith, and the search for truth,’ Roger Lenfest of Salem said. ‘What a brilliant speech.’

A New Hampshire Union Leader reporter was not allowed into the event, but heard plenty from those who attended the event at the Radisson Hotel, Center of New Hampshire.

Lenfest said if Brown’s true quest in writing ‘The Da Vinci Code’ was to get the masses talking about science, art, faith and the power of myth, he succeeded in a big way.

‘One of the beautiful things he said was that it’s not so much that people agree or disagree with his book,’ Lenfest said. ‘It’s about getting the conversation started and inspiring debate.’

‘It’s about a resistance to apathy,’ said his wife, Jen.”

Resisting apathy is important. I have to note, though, that being correct about facts is also important …

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Posted by wfzimmerman to The Solomon Key and Beyond: Dan Brown News at 10/12/2005 05:57:05 AM

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