Written by Nguyen, Notes from the Invisible Box of Valery Osser is a "lost chapter" to the Da Vinci Code. The entire Dan Brown novel was scanned in with the page numbers, titles, and authorship digitally removed. The entire book was reprinted with Nguyen's chapter added after Chapter 79. The sides of only Nguyen's pages have been gilded.

Narrated from the perspective of Marcel Duchamp's diary entries, Nguyen’s text inserts the artist in the role of Priory of Sion grandmaster and alludes to, among other things, a love story between Duchamp and a young Brazilian actress by the name of Valery Osser, who in turn becomes the inspiration for Rrose Selavy – Duchamp's alter ego and the perfect model of the "sacred marriage between masculine and feminine."

The two main symbols in the Da Vinci Code, the rose and star, make appearances in the real life of Duchamp. The former as the aforementioned Rrose Selavy and the latter in an unusual Man Ray photograph from the 1920s titled Comet, depicting Duchamp with his head shaved (Left Middle).

In a twist of the bizarre where reality and fiction blur, Valery Osser (an anagram of Duchamp's alter ego) is indeed a real actress from the 1930s whose obscure movie credits include a film titled Blood Rose.

Another proposition in Nguyen's chapter is the hypothetical sublimation of Leonardo's Last Supper in the form of Duchamp's Large Glass, or The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (with its equal divisions of the bride and her suitors).


To read the entire chapter, follow the link HERE.