A new online story

Posted 1 year, 6 months ago., on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009, at 11:09 pm
Tags:Writing

Just a quick note to mention that I’ve put a new story up on my website: “The Afghan Code” is my little spoof of The Da Vinci Code, which I loathed. I found it pretentious, pedantic, and fundamentally absurd; honestly, it was like looking into a mirror.

I was inspired to write “The Afghan Code” one day after my wife told me a story about a scandal involving a knitting store in a nearby town. Because I’m always inspired by the dark underbellies of the most banal activities (think David Lynch but with more quilting bees), I had to wonder what espionages and conspiracies could be found in the dark underbelly of the knitting community. And since I had just recently finished teaching a class at my church on “The Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code”, this story just seemed to come out of thin air.

Sadly, though, I was never able to get past the prologue. A spoof like this can only go so far as a spoof; at some point it has to have its own story, and I was never able to develop one. I’m open to suggestions.

“The Afghan Code” is not one of my Stories of the Week. It’s just a bit of flash I cooked up a few years ago.

Enjoy!

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2 Responses to “A new online story”

1. jer@nyquil.org says:

   January 23, 2009 at 5:11 pm

   Do you by any chance have any recordings of your talk/class/whatever? That sounds really interesting.

   I’m reminded of a story I heard on Australia’s ABC Radio regarding the real-life “Lancelot Code.”

   http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2005/1479676.htm

   There’s a transcript available there, or I have an mp3 of the segment at http://nyquil.org/uploads/science_20051015.mp3

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   • Richard S. Crawford says:

     January 23, 2009 at 5:21 pm

     I’m afraid I don’t. After the class was over, I pretty much dumped all the materials, since I wanted nothing more to do with that stupid book.

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