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i read FP before the da vinci code came out and i still can't believe it wasn't a bigger controversy. dan brown jacked the whole format.

He got the meaning entirely backwards, though. Or as Eco put it, Dan Brown was a creature in one of his stories.

In this story.

Dan Brown didn't copy Eco, he lifted most of the stuff from The Templar Revelation[0] (and he explicitly cites that).