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Having squeezed beneath the security gate, Robert Langdon now stood just inside the entrance to the Grand Gallery. He was staring into the mouth of a long, deep canyon1. On either side of the gallery, stark2 walls rose thirty feet, evaporating into the darkness above. The reddish glow of the service lighting3 sifted4 upward, casting an unnatural5 smolder6 across a staggering collection of Da Vincis, Titians, and Caravaggios that hung suspended from ceiling cables. Still lifes, religious scenes, and landscapes accompanied portraits of nobility and politicians.
Although the Grand Gallery housed the Louvre's most famous Italian art, many visitors felt the wing's most stunning7 offering was actually its famous parquet8 floor. Laid out in a dazzling geometric design of diagonal oak slats, the floor produced an ephemeral optical illusion—a multi-dimensional network that gave visitors the sense they were floating through the gallery on a surface that changed with every step.
As Langdon's gaze began to trace the inlay, his eyes stopped short on an unexpected object lying on the floor just a few yards to his left, surrounded by police tape. He spun9 toward Fache. "Is that... a Caravaggio on the floor?"
Fache nodded without even looking.
The painting, Langdon guessed, was worth upward of two million dollars, and yet it was lying on the floor like a discarded poster. "What the devil is it doing on the floor!"
Fache glowered10, clearly unmoved. "This is a crime scene, Mr. Langdon. We have touched nothing. That canvas was pulled from the wall by the curator. It was how he

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killer
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longing
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corpse
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hatred
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racism
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literally
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Christian
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chaos
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graphic
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stunned
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abruptly
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scrawled
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乱涂,潦草地写( scrawl的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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inaccurate
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perverted
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vestige
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precisely
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