degrees . . . twenty degrees . . . thirty degrees What happened next, Langdon never saw coming. CHAPTER 85 Transformation. Dean Galloway heard it happen, and so he didnt need to see it. Across the desk from him, Langdon and Katherine were dead silent, no doubt staring in mute astonishment at the stone cube, which had just transformed itself loudly before their very eyes. Galloway couldnt help but smile. He had anticipated the result, and although he still had no idea how this development would ultimately help them solve the riddle of the pyramid, he was enjoying the rare chance to teach a Harvard symbologist ray ban clubmasters polarized something about symbols. Professor, the dean said, few people realize that the Masons venerate the shape of the cubeor ashlar, a ray ban clubmasters polarized s we call itbecause it is a three-dimensional
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