Re: VMs: A comment on Jacques Guy's table

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruce,

At 14:53 18/12/2003 -0500, Bruce Grant wrote:
> I have always kept open in my mind the possibility that the VMS is a hoax 
> constructed for sale to someone, and therefore probably meaningless. But 
> it occurred to me the other day that, if I were creating such a hoax, I 
> _would_ want it to mean something, and I would want the cipher/code to be 
> relatively simple (at least in places). Think what a great sales pitch it 
> would be to "decode" part of the manuscript reveling some "great secret" - 
> the potential buyer would be positively salivating to get his hands on the 
> document so he could learn the rest of the secrets it contained.

Wouldn't that have been the purpose of the diagrams in the [hoaxed] VMs? 
Especially the nymphs, pipework... it's just a shame there's no noticeable 
alchemical or bizarre religious imagery, they would probably have been much 
better sales props (I guess). :-)

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


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