Robert Langdon:
[Swiss Guards Offices corridor. As Langdon and Olivetti walk, Langdon studies the row of statues of Male nudes that line both sides of the hallway, all wearing fig leaves]
The Great Castration.
Inspector Olivetti:
I beg your pardon?
Robert Langdon:
1857. Pius IX felt that the male form might inspire lust, so he took a hammer and chisel and unmanned hundreds of these statues. These plaster fig leaves were added later.
Robert Langdon:
[Olivetti stops abruptly outside a heavy steel door with a security keyboard beside it]
Are you anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?
Robert Langdon:
Me? No, I'm anti-vandalism?
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