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December 26, 2016
The Delightful Mysteries of ‘The Voynich Manuscript’
It’s probably the most persuasive theory, as everything in the book conveniently falls under the umbrella of “total nonsense.” While the European Middle Ages are often perceived as an austere and circumscribed culture, the Voynich Manuscript was conceived by a liberated imagination. There’s a genuine joy communicated through the details, like a monk doodling racy cartoons in the margins of a scholastic text. It could very well have been composed as an elaborate lampoon of medieval knowledge, and it’s amusing to imagine that we’re still falling for the trick. -- Paris Review
Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 26, 2016 9:40 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.