I only recently became aware of the existence of this absurdly charming book, Codex Seriphinianus.

“The Codex Seraphinianus, originally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini between 1976 and 1978. It is approximately 360 pages (depending on edition) and written in an imaginary language…

“…what (the author) wanted … to convey was the sensation children feel with books they cannot yet understand, although they see that the writing makes sense for adults.” – wikipedia
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esselte said:

I only recently became aware of the existence of this absurdly charming book, Codex Seriphinianus.

“The Codex Seraphinianus, originally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini between 1976 and 1978. It is approximately 360 pages (depending on edition) and written in an imaginary language…

“…what (the author) wanted … to convey was the sensation children feel with books they cannot yet understand, although they see that the writing makes sense for adults.” – wikipedia
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reminiscent of the voynich manuscript.

Bogsnorkler said:

esselte said:

I only recently became aware of the existence of this absurdly charming book, Codex Seriphinianus.

“The Codex Seraphinianus, originally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini between 1976 and 1978. It is approximately 360 pages (depending on edition) and written in an imaginary language…

“…what (the author) wanted … to convey was the sensation children feel with books they cannot yet understand, although they see that the writing makes sense for adults.” – wikipedia
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reminiscent of the voynich manuscript.

Thank you, I’d forgotten the name “voynich”

I’d like to analyse Codex Seriphinianus to see what limits it places on the human imagination.

Haldane said “The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.” which prompts the question of how strange can we imagine, and what the limits of that are. And therefore give some guidelines as to how to progress beyond that.