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uair01 Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Total posts: 1108 Gender: Male |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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 Posted: 21-02-2007 03:23 Post subject: Re: Codex Seraphianus - never mentioned here? |
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| uair01 wrote: | | Certainly I cannot be the first one who mentioned it here? |
It rings a bell but from where I don't know.
Have you got a copy? |
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| uair01 Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Total posts: 1108 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-02-2007 22:20 Post subject: Re: Codex Seraphianus - never mentioned here? |
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| Mighty_Emperor wrote: | | Have you got a copy? |
I wish I had, It's notoriously hard to get second hand and very expensive.
But to see how weird it is ... just follow the links above. |
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| ginoide Great Old One Joined: 07 Sep 2001 Total posts: 999 Gender: Unknown |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1418 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-10-2013 03:39 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | CODEX SERAPHINIANUS: A NEW EDITION OF THE STRANGEST BOOK IN THE WORLD
In October Rizzoli will be republishing what is regarded by many to be the strangest book in the world, the Codex Seraphinianus. The Codex is unlike other historically well-known strange books (such as the Voynich Manuscript), in that the author of the book is not only known (Luigi Serafini is his name), he’s still alive. But the book is just so damned strange that it has accumulated a veritable industry of speculation about its meaning, deeper origins, and whether the language in which it is written actually has any syntax or not. Serafini has said relatively little about it himself over the years, and denies that the script has any meaning, but no one really believes that, including me.
Over the years a whole cult has grown up on the Internet devoted to the Codex Seraphinianus. For instance, this group discovered that the numbering system is base 21, and this guy discovered certain grammatical rules governing the script, and even created a sort of transliterator you can use. This lady claims to have hallucinated herself into the world of the Codex, even prior to having heard of it. No one, however, has yet cracked the Codex and translated it. As for the author, he is very much alive (and apparently real, as you will read below) but continues to deny that the script has any meaning. (His website doesn’t, unfortunately, doesn’t have a heck of a lot of info.) In the forthcoming edition, however, Serafini now states that a stray white cat that joined him while he created the Codex in Rome in the 1970s was actually the real author, telepathically guiding Serafini as he drew and “wrote.” |
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/codex_seraphinianus_a_new_edition_of_the_strangest_book_in_the_world
Link includes full article, pics, links and video.
You can also look through some pages on
Amazon
Which is a lot cheaper than the $75 asking price! It looks pretty fantastic though... |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-10-2013 11:42 Post subject: |
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Wonderful stuff - though any mystery is diminished by knowing the author was a white cat!  |
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| SHAYBARSABE Great Old One Joined: 05 May 2009 Total posts: 1379 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 04-10-2013 18:37 Post subject: Re: Codex Seraphianus - never mentioned here? |
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How odd to see this mentioned. I once received a copy as a gift, but sold it years later to a bookshop (that did right by me on price).
I'm afraid I didn't think it was clever enough. |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 04-10-2013 18:58 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Wonderful stuff - though any mystery is diminished by knowing the author was a white cat! Smile |
Does the estate of the white cat get a cut of the 50quid you have to drop to see the book? |
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| EnolaGaia Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1305 Location: USA Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-10-2013 19:04 Post subject: Re: Codex Seraphianus - never mentioned here? |
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| uair01 wrote: | | Doing a search I notice that the mysterious and undeciphered "Codex Seraphinianus" was never mentioned on the FTMB ... Certainly I cannot be the first one who mentioned it here? |
The only surviving mention is in the Labyrinths thread:
http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=998626
... and then only in reference to the publisher, not Sarafini or the _Codex_ itself.
I could have sworn it was in relation to a discussion here on the FTMB that I explored the _Codex_ some years ago. Maybe it was a discussion on some other forum ... |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-10-2013 19:30 Post subject: |
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| Well uair01's original post was back in 2007 - so I think that may be when we both remember following the links. |
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| EnolaGaia Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1305 Location: USA Gender: Male |
| Posted: 04-10-2013 22:41 Post subject: |
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| JamesWhitehead wrote: | | Well uair01's original post was back in 2007 - so I think that may be when we both remember following the links. |
That's a good theory, but the _Codex_ stuff I archived on my computer (presumably motivated by something I saw on _FTMB_ or elsewhere) dates back to 2005. |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1418 Gender: Male |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
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| Posted: 14-10-2013 08:30 Post subject: |
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Beautiful. Funny. Surrealistic. More than a few visual puns, I suspect.
No need to worry about the text, the pictures are worth the money!  |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Posted: 14-10-2013 20:15 Post subject: |
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| The pictures are wonderful. |
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