Miscellanea

[undyingking]

• "It was only when he did not get up to take a bow that anyone realised something had gone wrong."
  This is the sort of story that if you put it in a murder mystery game, it would be dismissed as too absurd. Well done, Mr Hoevels, especially for coming back on the following night.

• "Another stage-property that he pulled out of his box pretty frequently was the broken twig. He prized his broken twig above all the rest of his effects, and worked it the hardest. It is a restful chapter in any book of his when somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around."
  Mark Twain was an excellent writer himself, and a still more excelent journalist. Here he demolishes a considerably less excellent pen. This really is a supreme hatchet job; thanks to sturgeonslawyer for the link.

• "Using a variety of store-bought teddy bears as ‘species’ source material, I am reverse-engineering what their skulls look like and the differences and similarities between ‘breeds.’ My approach is to make up evidence and document, present, and interpret that evidence in a formal manner."
  I can't remember now where I heard of this artist who makes peculiar sculptures out of felted wool. More power to her needling elbow, say I.

• "fachys.ykal.ar.ataiin.shol.shory.cthres.ykor.sholdy
  sory.cthar.or.y.kair.chtaiin.shar.are.cthar.cthar.dan"
  I've been doing some reading recently about the Voynich manuscript, that most intriguing document. I hadn't realized that there had been so much respectable textual analysis of it. One day I'll work out a way of using this and other such cryptic artefacts in something creative, but for now it's just interesting to follow the existing delvings int it. (Former UNEXPLAINED players will note that this site is hosted in Nauru, of all places...)

Comments

[hatmandu.livejournal.com]

Just in case you haven't seen this Voynich site (using genetic algorithms to analyse it): http://pcbunn.cacr.caltech.edu/Voynich/default.htm

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

That's pretty good! A bit dry for my purposes, but all grist to the mill.

[hatmandu.livejournal.com]

A bit dry

Well, indeed. A while back I had the idea of writing a nocel using all the Voynich images exactly as they are, but with readable text of course - possibly even with the crazy formal constraint of each word being the same length as the original. Hm, not a job for while we have a baby, methinks...

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

In a few years he'll be able to help you.