Re: VMs: Re: British Library [re-sent, sorry!]

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dennis,

At 22:33 14/12/2004 -0600, Dennis wrote:
> I wrote:
> > FWIW, I can weave a good yarn about what the VMs probably is, and that in 
> > itself should make a good documentary (though admittedly one closer to 3 
> > hours than to 1): but as it remains based on an art history proof (and 
> > not a cryptological "smoking gun" proof), I continue to try to make it 
> > more solid. Hopefully one day soon I'll get there... fingers crossed! :-)
>
>         I'd like to hear it anyway, Nick!

Sadly, these tiny electronic margins are far too narrow to contain it all: 
but I'll keep you posted as to my progress anyway. :-)

>         Of course, if we just want "Whiz", we could always use the old 
> theme of the Secret of Eternal Life, per Toresella, et multa al.  We 
> don't lack for  "Whiz" if we encourage speculation.  (Though we really 
> don't want to encourage more of that, it comes out of the woodwork anyway.)

In this spirit of "less Gee, more Whiz", you might appreciate this fragment 
of script I found in a long-forgotten London wine-bar. It suggests that, 
surely not far in the future, we may be in for an stimulating (if perhaps 
less than rigorous) documentary treat[ment]:-

                                * * * * * * * * *

<ominous low sustained strings, slow shot tracking through an ancient 
Indian temple, intercut with close-ups of suggestively posed female carvings >

<serious voice-over>
        INH ["Insert Name Here"] has been researching the mysterious
        Wojnicz Manuscript for over 50 years: his shocking conclusions, though
        not yet accepted by mainstream academics - or even his wife - could
        soon rock the cosy world of historical fact to the core.

[Close-up of INH wearing a pair of DataGloves and goggles, manipulating a 
virtual holographic image of a animated sequence of VMs nymphs, apparently 
disco-dancing.]

INH:
        My theory that a mysterious alien civilisation has embedded a message
        in this document - to teach us how to dance! For example, f72r2 is 
clearly
        a conga line, whereas f72v2 is the lambada!

[Fast-cut sequence of flashing neon lights and gyrating strippers. Music 
changes to salsa]

<voice-over>
        To support his theory, INH has travelled to strip-clubs across the 
world,
        taking tens of thousands of photos of exotic dancers, all of which 
he has
        made freely available to his fellow researchers via his website.

INH:
        Unfortunately, it seems that my extensive photo library has been 
pirated
        by the so-called "Internet pr0n industry": but it was all in the 
name of good
        science, I assure you!

                                * * * * * * * * *

Sadly, this was as much as our unnamed documentary-makers were able to fit 
on a napkin. Hopefully they were able to remember it when they sobered up 
after lunch. :-)

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


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