Comments on: The Voynich Translation – Chapter 1

By: Jody Maat

Jody Maat — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:48:53 +0000

Hi,Hi.

By: nickpelling

nickpelling — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:39:15 +0000

Hi Emily,

Doubtless there are many curious phenomena for which people are able to sustain some kind of argument for having been created by aliens. But the Voynich Manuscript isn’t one of them!

Cheers, ….Nick Pelling….

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:08:53 +0000

What’s interesting about your book(and your blog) is that it provides so much plausible real-world context for the Voynich– a work which has sometimes been compared to “a book from a parallel universe”, something which presumably couldn’t be explained by anything in this world.

By: nickpelling

nickpelling — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:40:33 +0000

Graydon Harvitz’s odyssey reflects that of just about any Voynich researcher – for every fact and observation in my book, there are another hundred that didn’t make the cut.

I hope you enjoy the book – let me know what you think!

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:59:47 +0000

As the kind of person who can lose hours on interlinked informal research projects, each book providing a chain of intriguing citations to things I think I must read, I think I know something of how Graydon feels even without trying to decipher the Voynich. I particularly liked this line, “his mind had become crammed with a near-infinite constellation of similarly useless fact-bites, all held in interplanetary hibernation, eternally waiting to arrive at an unseen off-world colony.”

And by the way, I finally found your book– through Interlibrary Loan, shipped all the way from Harvard to my Left Coast university. I’m quite enjoying it– and I find it fascinating just how much knowledge there is surrounding the Voynich, how many labyrinthine back alleys of facts one can explore…