o • Passport "Jesus is the 'Open Sesame' to heaven." -- Dwight Moody, quoted in American Jesus by Stephen Prothero (200 ) "[T]he passport to their freedom, the open sesame to their enjoyment." -- Erika Rappaport, Shopping for Pleasure (2001) • Password, code word, secret word, watchword "I want to open her memory, but I don't have the password. I want to cry out, 'Open, sesame!' so that the door to this treasure cave will open, but it is permanently locked." -- Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great- Grandmother (1974) "The problem is the password -- the open sesame. Without that, there's nothing we can do. The door won't open for the wolf, no matter how hard he tries to disguise his voice. He can knock and say, 'Hi, it's me, your friend Rabbit,' but if he hasn't got the password, he gets turned away at the door." -- Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1998) "I keep the gate locked and don't answer unless I hear the right open sesame." -- Moshin Hamid, Moth Smoke (2000) "[T]he password, the 'Open sesame' unlocking the door of a past which one had ceased to take into account because, having seen more than enough of it, literally one no longer possessed it." -- Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D.J. Enright (199 ) "In fables, access is always controlled by 'secret words' like 'Open Sesame.'" -- James Dale Davidson, The Great Reckoning (2004) • Propitiate -- Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Hannibal (2004) • Red carpet "This truth has been my passport and has been the open sesame to freedom and joy in all countries." -- Joel S. Goldsmith, Practicing the Presence (1958) "When he . . . wanted to be first in line, all he had to do was start in the direction he chose, and his approach itself proved to be an 'open sesame.'" -- Edwin H. Friedman, Friedman's Fables (1990) • Safe conduct "[A] magical safe conduct, an 'Open, Sesame!'" -- Ignacio Ellacuría and Jon Sobrino, Mysterium Liberationis (199 ) • Secret "It has found the secret of knowledge; the open sesame to all truth." -- Arthur W. Lindsley, Classical Apologetics (1984) "[D]iscovering the 'open sesame' to real living . . ." -- Edgar Cayce, My Life as a Seer (1997) "'To weigh and consider' -- that is the open sesame of right reading." -- Frank Haddock, Power of Will (1907) "What is the open sesame to a thriving practice?" -- Vickie L. Mi lazzo, Create Your Own Magic for CLNC Success (200 ) • Secret passage "Perhaps, in some remote unborn century, a more fortunate explorer may hit upon the 'Open Sesame,' and flood the world with gems. But, myself, I doubt it. Somehow, I seem to feel that the millions of pounds' worth of