Re: VMs: new revelations

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rafal,

At 20:19 30/12/02 +0100, Rafal T. Prinke wrote:
> The police searching the flats of Wilfryd's collaborators
> found some letters written by him in cypher (yes, CYPHER!)
> and using chemical "sympathetic" ink!

*Excellent* stuff, well done! :-)

> Well?

My guess... is that Voynich's cipher background may have helped him to be 
hypnotised by the VMS, in the same way I imagine Edward Kelly's background 
(as a would-be magician and son of an apothecary) to have helped him be 
captivated by it.

Perhaps, then, to Voynich, Newbold, perhaps Kelly, and no doubt many 
others, the VMS acted like a shattered distorting mirror, giving them 
glimpses (but no more!) of what they wanted to see in it - themselves as 
they aspired to be.

I believe that Voynich wanted credibility as a rare book-dealer, but 
without having to continually do clandestine deals to place MS that perhaps 
should have stayed put (such as that which I imagine him to have brokered 
with the SJ)... which is what he saw in the VMS' shattered mirror, but 
never achieved.

However, YODIMV (your own dialectical interpretation may vary). :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

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