I’ve been reading the insanely-popular *Da Vinci Code*. I sort of suspected that no book so popular could be any good, but I recognized that that was just me being an élitist and so when a couple of people whose opinion I respect said nice things about it I went forward and bought it on the Palm.
What I want my more-literate friends to explain to me is this: how can the waters of the Seine be *turgid*? Is it high … Read the rest