Re: VMs: "De Aequilibriatis Mundi" revealed

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A week ago already,

25/02/2005 5:09:12 AM, Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx> 
had written:

>Dana and all,

>I wonder if this page was published before or after
>Ruggs' article came out.

Here is the story, from the author himself:

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:05:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Haspil <rogue428@xxxxxxxxx>

Oops,  I apologize for causing any confusion on the MS list.  
The SB428 MS was kind of an inside joke created to accompany 
a larger piece of fan fiction my friends and I wrote.  And yes 
the majority of it was based largely on the Voynich font. The 
reason I didn't change the "w" to "uu" was that I just directly 
put the Voynich font over an existing text file just to make it 
look cool.  I was going more for a look, than for a distinct, 
accurate file that people could read.  In fact, I never figured 
anyone would try reading it! The original text file that I used 
was the instruction manual to one of my favorite really old games 
called "The Cosmic Balance" by SSI.  Hence the whole, "insert 
your disk into the disk drive" statement. If you really want 
more of the MS, let me know, and I'll have to root around and 
see if I can find the original pages.  Its been quite a while 
since I made this, but I know I would have never thrown it out, 
I just have to find it. 

P.S. I figured that when I said it was discovered by Prof. Henry 
Jones Jr.  (University of Chicago), that it would be a dead 
giveaway as an inside joke.  That's Indiana Jones!

I'm glad you seemed to have fun with it though and I am 
surprised no one got the Cthulhu mythos references. 
Thanks for letting me know.

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>From which I conclude that the mysterious "De Aequilibritatis
Mundi" is quite independent from Rugg, whether it predates it
or not.


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