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A rare trippy book.
#5426475 - 03/21/06 05:53 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I've known about this book for a while. It's called the Codex Seraphinianus, and it's an encyclopedia of an imaginary world in a parallel universe. Check this out:
It's like a trippified Voynich manuscript. More pics and info here.
The whole book is written in that weird indecipherable script. And it's a big book. I love the illustrations. I like to watch things change into other things. Metamorphosis. The cycle of growth and decay, really just the same thing. And the patterns. Nature is intelligent.
I would love to own a copy. You might be able to grab one on ebay for about $250. Still never seen one in the flesh. One of these days I tell you..
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Revelation]
#5426626 - 03/21/06 06:17 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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wow that looks amazing.
Thank you for sharing
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Revelation]
#5426715 - 03/21/06 06:30 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wow thats really good stuff. It awakens a childlike sense of wonder, I'd love to come across it somewhere and go over it real close.
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Revelation]
#5426829 - 03/21/06 06:53 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thats some real neat stuff in that book, I found this on the net about it.
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Revelation]
#5428740 - 03/22/06 05:49 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Really nice!
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Revelation]
#5428754 - 03/22/06 06:05 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I really hope somebody out there has hosted a PDF of this.
This looks like a really interesting book. A strong oddity AND novelty, which is right up my alley.
If I could afford it I would without a doubt buy a copy. Seriously, this kind of shit is what I live for. Novelty, obscurity, oddity... I'm quite enthused.
You know... now that I think of it... I bet that a clever mind could decipher the odd dialect in which it is written.
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Revelation]
#5428763 - 03/22/06 06:17 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Really nice! But the Abbeville edition goes for almost $300 at Amazon.com 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: ivi]
#5428884 - 03/22/06 07:41 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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That is trippy as hell. Good call!
It reminds me of that animated movie, what is it? The Amazing Planet? Where the humans are pets to the Voivods or something like that.
Lets all chip in and buy that book.
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: gotyerback]
#5429084 - 03/22/06 08:52 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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very nice post. ima print some out in good quality and cover them in a frame and hang in the pad!!
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Revelation]
#5429172 - 03/22/06 09:21 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm going to buy it. Hopefully when they make a cheaper edition for the common folk.
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Konnrade]
#5429217 - 03/22/06 09:37 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks for sharing, I'd really like to see the book in its entirety.
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Trav]
#5429344 - 03/22/06 10:21 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#5429351 - 03/22/06 10:24 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Collecting rare books would be a really nice rich persons hobby.
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: MOTH]
#5429354 - 03/22/06 10:25 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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One day I hope I can collect some rarebooks. Not too many, just ones that are really important to me.
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Does anyone have info on outlawed/blacklisted books?
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#5429370 - 03/22/06 10:31 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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It is illegal to read my autobiography within 3,000,000 miles of Earth.
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That's because you're a baby eater.
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Konnrade]
#5432628 - 03/23/06 12:15 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Konnrade said: If I could afford it I would without a doubt buy a copy. Seriously, this kind of shit is what I live for. Novelty, obscurity, oddity... I'm quite enthused.
Same here man. I can barely afford rent at the moment tho so I can't justify spending money on something as extravagant as this.
People are making some efforts to decipher it, but the general consensus is that it is not a language. The author, Luigi Serafini was an artist and this seems to be a work of art first and foremost...
However..have you heard of the Voynich manuscript? This book is kind of a parody of that. The voynich manuscript is 600 years old and is of unknown origin, it is written in a strange script that has yet to be deciphered, although MANY have tried. It has weird illustrations of various flora/fauna and some cosmological shit.
There is an mp3 floating about of Terence Mckenna talking about it. Great to hear him wax lyrical on such a fascinating topic.
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Revelation]
#5432668 - 03/23/06 12:31 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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That looks sick!
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Revelation]
#5432676 - 03/23/06 12:34 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I want this badly.
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Revelation]
#5432694 - 03/23/06 12:40 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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There is an mp3 floating about of Terence Mckenna talking about it. Great to hear him wax lyrical on such a fascinating topic.
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Vvellum]
#5432714 - 03/23/06 12:45 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Thanks. I would have upped it but I'm back home on 56k.
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Re: A rare trippy book. [Re: Revelation]
#5432832 - 03/23/06 01:36 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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i wonder if any complete scans of this book exist
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