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>Hugo was the first to do extensive research on the time and place for a work of fiction. His description of the chapel was of a "book of stone", an expression of the knowledge of humanity erected through the long labor of not only the clergy, artists and engineers, but of the whole congregation. Think Masons and their "great work". This chapter was Hugo's declaration that the prose novel would be the new "book of stone". The novel remained the medium of the "great work" until Kubrick declared the movie had replaced it with the light show sequence in 2001.
>Hugo chose Notre Dame cathedral as his champion of the best expression of our divine humanity in the preceding great artistic medium. Today, it burns.
http://deceivedworld.blogspot.com/2010/08/william-coopers-mystery-babylon.html
Introduction – The Dawn of Man (aired February 11th, 1993)
In the beginning of the movie 2001, most people who sat in the theater were struck by the imagery which was presented to them, as they first saw a dark and grey and ugly world. And as that world begin [sic] to move down from the center of the screen, they saw behind it, a moon. And as the moon begin to come down with the world that was sinking to the lower part of the screen behind it you saw the emergence of the sun. What you are witnessing was an eclipse of the sun, partial eclipse, and as the light from the sun spilled across the edge of the moon, it took the shape of the boat of Isis[3] and the sun, of course, for anyone who has studied, the Osirian cycle became Osiris. And the symbology was Osiris riding across the heavens upon the boat of Isis.
[3] Interesting note: The Cathedrale de Notre Dame de Paris (Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris) is situated on the Ile de la Cite (island of the city), an island in the Seine River, a river where the Isidis Navigatum was known to be celebrated during the Roman era. The Ile de la Cite is the original birthplace of Paris, and from an aerial view, one can see that the island is boat shaped.