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'Can it be true? That I hold here in my mortal hand a nugget of purest green?'
On our last night in France last year, at the end of the assistantship, Renata, Jenny and I went out for Indian food. We found a restaurant just by wandering around and I happened to look up and see that it was in the Rue Nicholas Flamel.
At the time, I only knew Flamel as the "only known maker of the Philosopher's [or Sorcerer's] Stone" from the Harry Potter books, but it turns out that he really existed. Flamel was a fourteenth-century French alchemist and that he really was rumoured to possess the Philosopher's Stone, which is supposed to create an elixir of immortality as well as having the alchemic powers to turn ordinary metals to gold.
srah - Thursday, 15 July 2004 - 5:58 AM
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He was also a member of the Priory of Sion, guardians of the "Holy Grail"...or the remains of Mary Magdalene, wife of Jesus.
Uhoh. Did I just open a can of worms?