An update on the "Voynich Manuscript".
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/09/decoding-voynich-manuscript/679157/
@mcfate there's another thing like this, I saw it in Calgary. Has vexed cryptologists. I'll dig it up. Cool as hell.
@mcfate The Gibson Anthology, Background: Gibson harvested a wide range of science-fictional materials for more than 890 anthologies from primarily English-language magazines published from the 1840s onwards. He then bound these materials, illustrated, and provided for each anthology a hand-written table of contents, which — significantly — includes symbols through which he rated the “SF content” of the items he collected. Gibson left no key to these symbols.
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I've got an absolutely ginormous copy of Codex Seraphinianus.
The author says the stuff in there was more-or-less "automatic writing", and can't be expected to mean anything (or if it DOES, it's got nothing to do with HIM). There seems to be a pretty consistent "alphabet", though.
@mcfate yeah, yeah, same kind of thing. Feels like the same psychological impulse. The brain requires order, will make it.
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http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/1/000228/000228.html
The whole collection and cryptology collab is at the Calgary Library: https://library.ucalgary.ca/
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