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Serafini speaks. 30 years ago Luigi Serafini, a successful Italian sculptor and industrial designer, created one of the strangest books in the world, Codex Seraphinianus.
It is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, thoroughly illustrated and described in an imaginary language. It has, for example, chapters on how a couple of love-makers produce a crocodile, on the development of a horse maggot and on why it is a great idea to replace a leg with a wheel. In spite of all oddities, Luigi Serafini’s book has become a great hit. It is published and republished. Thread on metafilter. Get your base-21 converter here. Seraphinianus base-21. They say that the text of the Codex Seraphinianus was never meant to mean anything; all the same, I mean to treat it here as if it was.
Sounds crazy? I tried being sane once, and it nearly drove me mad. Anyway, don't blame me; it was Luigi Serafini who started it. I don't own a copy of the Codex; I'm working from some notes I took in Michael Everson's library. The Structure of the Text. Codex seraphinianus online.