A conversation this weekend:

Woman: I’ll buy your book, but I’m sure I won’t agree with it.

Me: Okay. Thanks! (Thinking…next, please)

Woman: I mean, I’ve looked at that painting for years, and thought that it looked like a woman.

Me: Well, it’s not. It’s John.

Woman: But it could be.

Me: No, it couldn’t. To think so, in Da Vinci Code terms,  would presume the existence of the Prioriy of Sion. Which, in the form Brown describes it, did not exist. Leonardo painted John in the style all Renaissance artists painted him.

Woman: But that’s what you say. Other people say other things.

Me: But the evidence doesn’t support that interpretation.

Woman: But it could be.