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The Codex Seraphinianus

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imPsimon

imPsimon

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...is according to wikipedia "a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world" which is
made by Luigi Serafini. It features a made up language and in general it seems very surreal.
Do anyone here like surreal?

...and is there anyone who have "read" it?

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Codex Seraphinianus - Wikipedia

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Very interesting. I hadn't heard of this codex before today and now I'm inspired to go learn more. It looks pretty cool....swiming trees and all!

Peace
 
A beautiful and strange book, I'd pick up a coffee table copy if it weren't out-of-print and several hundred dollars on Amazon! The illustrations in there remind me of those in Jung's Red Book.
 

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I WANT THIS BOOK.

damn you damn you damn you - you have made me covet a book whose price range is 345 - 2500 dollars!1 DAMN YOU! :)

I guess I'll have to start putting some pennies aside...

JBArk the triste, codex coveter
 
Been scouring the pdf over and over. This book fascinates me to no end...

What's the deal with this thing?

Does anyone have any info or at least far out wild theories about it's origins?
 
dreamer042 said:
Been scouring the pdf over and over. This book fascinates me to no end...

What's the deal with this thing?

Does anyone have any info or at least far out wild theories about it's origins?
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PDF!!??!!

Link please pretty please?
 
One of my favorite books ever. I've had the PDF for a while...it was the only thing that even remotely satiated my urge to buy it. Additionally, my old school has a copy in the rare books collection...worth checking out in hardcopy if anyone lives near a university library. Each section is so amazing and the text looks so meaningful in relation to the images that I am perpetually frustrated by the "autowriting" claims. It's a truly remarkable work of art, imo
 
dreamer042 said:
www.mediafire.com

Luigi.Serafini.-.Codex.Seraphinianus

MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.
www.mediafire.com

:d
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Thanks a millionfolds...andfolds...andfolds...andfolds!

This will keep me stimulated for now, but I see a hardcopy in my future - a lot of compression artifacts and i am sure the colour isn't too true...
But really, thanks, good enough to let me decide if it's worth purchasing (I think I already know the answer to that though8) )

Cheers,

JBArk
 
This part from wiki takes away from the mystic for sure!

In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles held on May 12, 2009, Serafini has stated that there is no meaning hidden behind the script of the Codex, which is asemic; that his own experience in writing it was closely similar to automatic writing; and that what he wanted his alphabet to convey to the 'reader' is the sensation that children feel in front of books they cannot yet understand, although they see that their writing does make sense for grown-ups.
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joedirt said:
This part from wiki takes away from the mystic for sure!

In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles held on May 12, 2009, Serafini has stated that there is no meaning hidden behind the script of the Codex, which is asemic; that his own experience in writing it was closely similar to automatic writing; and that what he wanted his alphabet to convey to the 'reader' is the sensation that children feel in front of books they cannot yet understand, although they see that their writing does make sense for grown-ups.
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He would say that, would't he? 😉

Never trust an author's interpretation of his own work, or anything he says about it, for that matter - it is always either subterfuge, misdirection or simply a tongue in cheek pat answer to take the piss out of an intellectually inferior critic, sending them off to publish something which in time reveals them for what they are...

...but clearly, you shouldn't look for truth in any of the above, for I am, of course, it's author.8)

JBArk
 
looking at the texts gives me the feeling this guy has unlocked the secret of the universe or something :d :p 8)

joedirt said:
This part from wiki takes away from the mystic for sure!

In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles held on May 12, 2009, Serafini has stated that there is no meaning hidden behind the script of the Codex, which is asemic; that his own experience in writing it was closely similar to automatic writing; and that what he wanted his alphabet to convey to the 'reader' is the sensation that children feel in front of books they cannot yet understand, although they see that their writing does make sense for grown-ups.
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well now of course he is going to say that! As the jbarkinator said, this guy isn't going to spill the beans at some big university talk. You can't just come out at Oxford claiming you've been channeling life that exists on other realities/planets now can you?! :lol:
 
I'm pretty sure people have been trying to decode it for a while with no success...as I stated earlier, the text just appears far too relevant to the diagrams and images to merely fit the autowriting claim...but you never know. If someone decoded it I would be so ecstatic...I've spent hours just gazing at the text, tracing over the script, it's entrancing!
 
370+ pages of auto-writing in such fine detail with what seems to be structure? I'm a skeptic, but somethin' otherworldly is goin' on there.

Thank you very much for posting the PDF dreamer042! I think jbark and I are saving for the same book now!

:d
 
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