harry mulisch

the discovery of heaven "He himself, he had said, could prove in a trice that Bacon had written Genesis or the novels of Nabokov: all you had to do was to look at the first five letters of his name and you could see that it was an anagram of 'Bacon,' and you had to remember that the c in Cyrillic alphabet was the ka; and the ending ov, of course, stood for 'of Verulam' - that was obvious."

• Thanks to Andrew Shaindlin for providing this quote.

• This kind of proof reminds me of the fun Umberto Eco had with the dimensions of the pyramids in Foucault's Pendulum.