Just when I thought it was safe to pack my mallet away for the Olympics, a whole load more Voynich moles popped up (if you remember the arcade game Whac-a-Mole, it’s a lot like that). I go through all this stuff so that you don’t have to…
(1) Tom O’Neill claims in a YouTube video that the Voynich Manuscript is written in a polyalphabetic cipher that, after three and a half years of exhausting labour, he has finally cracked. His decrypt of the first paragraph of f1r goes something like this (I’ve had to guess at a few words, but I think it’s generally pretty close):-
Woman, this mouth sense in the daytime, Lisa do you taste on the side of rich lips, bias corely that away from love dies from will. Nymph, nymph, know this male, he adores for company. My estate because of a lover, mistress of a house, say this or mouth our love between one another, that our faith on the side of a mountain. Would that destroy this cord asunder?
Personally, I prefer his YouTube videos where he dresses up in army fatigues, calls himself Commander or Admiral Mansfield, proclaims his desire that we should all fight the New World Order, and recites his own rather gory poetry. But taste is a subjective thing, I guess.
(2) Algorithmic music programmer “Dan of Earth” has released a noise thing called Voynich Was Here, self-described on archive.org as “algorithmic composition as applied to horrible noise”. Even what appears to be its biggest fan on the Internet has trouble seeing its positives:-
“Some might find Voynich Was Here more interesting to read about than it is to listen to, but that would be factoring out the small, subtle nuances that are difficult to pick up on. The intent listener will be focused on hearing those shifts in sound, however small they are.“
(3) Here’s a quicky link to an upcoming unsolved mystery comic book thing called Hic + Hoc, that’s going to be covering the Voynich Manuscript (along with a load of other stuff) fairly soon, I guess.
(4) And lastly – inevitably, it would seem – comes a Voynich theory proposing not only that the Olympic stadium in Stratford is a pagan altar, but that the blueprints for it might well be in the Voynich Manuscript’s nine-rosette page. Shocking stuff, but very possibly not entirely true, it has to be said. 🙂
OK – who designed the stadium and what has he/she/they to say for themselves?
Hmnn – is it a coincidence that the designer is called Populous, and that the construction began in 2007, the height of the Voynich wave when the ‘9 rosettes’ was all over the internet?
Populus must be an anagram of somebody’s name.. or enciphered.. or if written in ancient Macedonian looks like ‘Voynich’..or something.
Surely.
quote from wiki:
The architect, Populous, … Construction took four years from 2007 to 2011.
Diane, Diane, Diane (or do I mean “daiin daiin daiin”?), please resist the urge to ironically inhale this Voynich miscellany stuff, it can only do you harm. 😐
You’re right. I don’t know how you resist – I shall endeavour.
Diane: I find that holding my nose works for moderate depths and immoderate smells. It sometimes works for Voynich theories, too. 😉
I think I’ve gone nose deaf
Remind me never to get stuck in a lift with you. 😉
A person of more acute sensibilities might be more inclined to object to a cheap aftershave in an enclosed space, though.
Diane: are you deliberately trying to get me to reply “so don’t put any aftershave on“? I hope not! 🙂
I never step into lifts with gentlemen who aren’t wearing one of the following:
gloves (grey or white)
a carnati
a wife – fully clothed, of course.
I also prefer people to be wearing shoes, but other climes, other mores.
Nick, I thought of writing a private email, but I’m sure you have enough of those.
Our national government, I hear, is presently attempting to rush through parliament legislation which will make all electronic communications available, without prior cause, notification or warrant, for an indefinite period of time, to our intelligence organisation.
I am sure they have their reasons, if only to justify present practices after the fact.
Trouble is, power cannot be given to an organisation. It is always given to a number of people, among whom some will inevitably be potentially corrupt, others mad boyfriends, voyeurs, and whatnot: the usual cross-section.
I’ve already witnessed one incident where an individual used a ‘mates’ relationship to the police force to invade the privacy of a certain family, at the time presenting it – actually a rather horrid sort of obsession – by slurring the reputation of the mother and one o the children and persuading the authorities to install an illicit camera on his behalf. Nasty stuff – and doubtless such people are rare. The problem of course is the old one about custody of custodians.
And since there are no other ways for a person of conscience to protest, so if this legislation is passed, I can’t think of what to do except to cease using the medium.
Back to snail mail I guess- but as a recent retiree I can do that now.
But it has been fun meeting ‘Voynicheros’ – and thanks, whatever may happen up our way.
Hi Nick. When you lock at it properly and Rosetta 9. So you see an interesting thing. ( Just for fun – on that page is written.) The picture was clear that it’s important to rearrage. The figure is drawn fish. This is one of the symbols of the Rosenbergers. Then there is drwn castle that belonged to then. Castle’s name is Rosenberg. ( Most Lords of Rosenberg studies in Italy). in addition, there is illusrated : The silver mines, mine dewatering system works. When you turn the wheel and see the character of man. This hill is in fact – a fish. Which happily smilling. it has two large eyes, fins, and a big smile. man stands symbolically for its mining pit. in the lower rigt is shown the gold eguipment. ( it is located in sheep’s skin that trap the tiny particles of metal.) Signature of whom belonged to the mine is down the left. ( page roset I described aboud a year ago in the article cosmological).
The Olympic one is fun. Voynich Folio 73v may be a prophecy that Italians will win gold medal in archery 🙂
Oh, Diane!
Don’t let the sumbitches get you down! You did say you’re retired now? Will recent events (political) put your pension in jeopardy?
Are there indications that Aussie politics or military are going to interfere with “freedom of expression” on the WWW?
If you like, contact me via our last conversation on my emailbox — I may have some alternate ways of facilitating your communications with Nick’s forum topics.
Bdid
Kind of you. I’ll wait to see how the voting goes.
Nick,
Nice extrapolation!
Ok, Diane!
As long as Nick’s patience/tolerance will continue, remember you can comment/rant(?) on “Round n’ Round”!
I’m hoping Mr. Pierson isn’t going to disappear entirely. Check out his contribution (upon which Nick commented) and my last post on Round n’Round re bath houses and Castel Gandolpho (in antiquity – 1st century A.D.) and its “morph” into a church.
Nick,
In these parts (our ranch property) we have moles, gophers, ground squirrels — and rattlesnakes, coyotes, and Great Blue Herons which feed upon them. Not that I’m taking your comments literally, but just in fun! Moles have their roles!
Sorry Nick,
I tried and used google translation, I will not do that again. I was wrong. At least I tried!
Tom: 🙂 All the same, I still prefer your poems, I hope you don’t mind! 🙂