Showing posts with label Ivan Derzhanski. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ivan Derzhanski. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Codex Seraphinianus on Flickr...

If you haven't seen Luigi Serafini's Codex Seraphinianus before, I heartily recommend stomping over to this 230-photo Flickr set and checking it out.

It's now reasonably well-known that the book's strange page-numbering system has been cracked (it's a funny kind of base-21 counting, with various unlucky numbers removed), but the text itself remains enigmatic. Ivan Derzhanski has posted some observations here, but I think it's fair to say nobody yet has the foggiest idea how to go about trying to read it. Oh well!

Incidentally, there's even a ballet based on it!