Voynich Manuscript Quotes

To life lived fully: to laughter, to have loved and lost, to be remembered for the good fight.

Carolina removed an old and creased single sheet of paper, yellowed with age, that was now carefully protected in clear, acid-free paper. She handed it to Dara. "This was folded up in a parik-til, in the box with my birth certificate." "A parik-til?" asked Jennifer. "It is a small pouch that is filled with things to bring good luck or blessings." She held up the cloth bag and opened it for the girls to see. "Gypsies use them, but so do Native Americans as well as people from Central and South America and other parts of the world. When I got it, I had no idea what it was or what it meant. I knew the folded piece of paper was old and somehow had to be important to me since my birth parents had included it with the other things they wanted me to have." Carolina stood up and walked over to the window. How well she remembered the overwhelming emotions she felt when she first saw those pages of the Voynich Manuscript in the book she was reading, and then realizing that the ancient script was the same as what was on the piece of paper that had been preserved in the parik-til--her parik-til. "Anyway, as soon as I saw the photographs of some of the manuscript pages in the book I was reading, I made the connection immediately. It was the same script as what was on this sheet of paper that I had been given." All three FIGS crowded closely together to look at Carolina's treasure.

Voynich Manuscript

There is a book called the Voynich Manuscript which is written in a script that is completely unknown and appears to be untranslatable, even to the most experienced linguists on the planet. Made in the early 15th century, it depicts a number of plants that do not match with any known species on our planet, as well as a series of what appear to be astronomical drawings. Although experts cannot figure out what the book is, who wrote it and why, they do agree that it is unlikely to be a fake, as it would have taken far too much time and money to create something so intricate just for a joke!

To get this right, you’d have to know what codes were doing the round in the eighteenth century, wouldn’t you? Mind you, it ain’t always easy. You’ve heard of the Voynich Manuscript?’ ‘No.’ ‘A scientific book, at least four hundred years old, written in code. No one’s ever managed to crack that one, not even you modern whizz-kids.

If people were made to wear their reputation like the nose on their face, I believe most of the worlds problems would be resolved.

If reputations were face tats, the world would be a better place.

He avoided unpleasant topics until they had time to mellow with age; like bourbon, about a dozen years were needed to mellow the unpalatable.

The word “frivolous” lurks in the subtext of such opinions, along with the assumption that flights of fantasy have no moorings to reality, a tether believed by some to be essential. Yet completely un-utilitarian fantastical “documents” like the famed Codex Seraphinianus (created by Luigi Serafini in the 1970s), the mysterious fifteenth-century Voynich Manuscript, or writer-artist Richard A. Kirk’s “Iconoclast” imaginings have a marvelous intrinsic value no matter what we can actually glean from them. Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland may or may not include some interesting life lessons, but that is beside the point of the mathematical precision of its frivolity. As the award-winning Australian writer Lisa L. Hannett points out, “‘ frivolous’ reading is as important as creative play. Reading for fun, reading to feed your imagination, reading to revel in the childlike wonder of being elsewhere.