Re: VMs: Codex Seraphinianus available again?

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

7/01/03 21:15:27, "Robert Antony Hicks" <rob_hicks_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I have seen some pages from it - there is a website somewhere.  I'm not sure 
>what we can learn from the codex; to me it is immediately obvious that the 
>text is only pseudo-text, glossalalic at best, and has no structure or 
>method.
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 I am not so sure. Read what Ivan Derzhanski observed about it:

http://www.math.bas.bg/~iad/serafin.html

There is a now dead link near the top of the page
(http://www.artonline.it/edicola/artdos/123/artic123.html)

That is where, I seem to remember, I read that Serafini
claimed that the text was real, not glossolalia. Now, of
course, he could have been lying, obviously.

This reminds me of the first time I was exposed to Italian.
I must have been nine or so. I used to read lots of 
comic strips. Once, in one comic (I think the title was
"Pipo") there was a whole page where the dialogues were
nothing but gibberish. It did not look like a real
language at all (my father had German and English books,
so I already knew what real languages were like. And
I was learning Russian out of "Le Russe Sans Peine"). It
is about 2-3 years later that I identified the gibberish:
it was Italian! "Pipo" was the French edition of an Italian
comic, and, by some glitch, a whole page had been printed
in the Italian original.  (I remember now: it was published
in France by Editions Lug). Honestly now, does "caffellatte"
look like a real language? I just got "L'Armenien Sans Peine".
Armenian writing looks just as undifferentiated as Seraphinian
lower-case letters--some letters differ only minimally, e.g.
"r" and "e", "y" and "l", and more. 

Frogguy





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