Not sure if this is the right board to post this on, but what are your thoughts on the Voynich Manuscript?
>>9593094
Crazy cool text. Been too lazy to read the (english) introduction to it. Nothing I'm proud of.
Personally, I like to believe it was an account of somebody who went into a different dimension and/or communicated with daimons/jinn/angels/whatever.
Wut u think?
My guess is that its author is the first and best lit troll ever.
A beautiful product of mental illness. Like if Henry Darger's work wasn't discovered until centuries later.
Has to be John Dee or some equivalent level mystic.
>>9593094
I want a reproduction, but fuck me, they're so fucking expensive.
>tfw you'll never be able to afford one of the 800 exact reproductions
>>9593094
Do I have a treat for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYKL5n8qGk
>>9593710
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpZD_3D8_WQ
Simply the most difficult book ever written.
>>9593679
This seems the most likely explanation to me. Some autistic aristocrat kept locked away in a library his whole life to avoid disgracing the family.
He was truly /ourguy/.
>>9593706Just get a folio printed of the pdf.
>>9593706
>>9593850
>owning a book nobody can read
>>9593105
>Crazy cool text.
do you mean the text that has never been decoded, and which a few cryptographers believe is almost completely random? yeah. that is crazy cool, whatever it says.
>>9593900
It's aesthetics! AESTHETICS, YOU FUCKING SAVAGE!
>>9593105
>>9593679
>>9593689
Basically this, probably following psychedelic use (most probably psilocybin).
The code is incredibly beautiful too.