No, it’s not another Voynich Manuscript novel for the Big Fat List, but instead the working title (according to a blog entry here) for a track by 1980s German Synthpop funsters Alphaville in an upcoming album.
And no, much as I enjoyed “Big In Japan” I don’t quite think that really counts as a huge lurch into the mainstream. Until you start to see Barbie Voynich-decoder love rings (“olal” = “I fancy him“, “qoky” = “after school“, etc), or perhaps “The Voynich Manuscript According To Clarkson” in hardback in Asda, it’s going to stay a pretty much marginal thing. But could that ever happen? Well…
Having just driven a Murcialago through the sides of three caravans on fire, the producers of Top Gear set me my toughest challenge yet – deciphering the Voynich Manuscript. With my judgment still clouded by that incredible adrenaline high, I rather foolishly accepted…