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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Cipher Fiction</title>
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		<title>An obfuscation of Voynich novels&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/01/31/an-obfuscation-of-voynich-novels</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Novel Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I hurried my seven year old son to the back door to see a crowd of twenty or more crows spectacularly circling and cawing furiously at a pair of magpies who had presumably transgressed some unwritten bird law. Of course, though, the correct collective noun isn&#8217;t a &#8216;crowd&#8217;, but (rather delightfully) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A few days ago, I hurried my seven year old son to the back door to see a crowd of twenty or more crows spectacularly circling and cawing furiously at a pair of magpies who had presumably transgressed some unwritten bird law. Of course, though, the correct collective noun isn&#8217;t a &#8216;crowd&#8217;, but (rather delightfully) [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Voynich Translation, Chapter 5&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/28/the-voynich-translation-chapter-5</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/28/the-voynich-translation-chapter-5#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Here are links to chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Enjoy!] * * * * * * * The crew were spending the rest of the day on those interminable fly-past shots of the Voynich Manuscript all modern documentary editors demand, their rostrum camera a microlight buzzing across a lightly-inked vellum landscape. But Marina [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[[Here are links to chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Enjoy!]
* * * * * * *
The crew were spending the rest of the day on those interminable fly-past shots of the Voynich Manuscript all modern documentary editors demand, their rostrum camera a microlight buzzing across a lightly-inked vellum landscape. But Marina Lyonne would [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review: &#8220;Steve Santa and the secret of the Last Parfait&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/23/review-steve-santa-and-the-secret-of-the-last-parfait</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/23/review-steve-santa-and-the-secret-of-the-last-parfait#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Novel Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how two things can have all the same basic ingredients and yet end up wildly different. A Maclaren MP4-12C and a Fiat 500 are both cars: yet few would disagree that they&#8217;re worlds apart. Similarly, even though Emery Borka has &#8211; in Steve Santa and the secret of the Last Parfait &#8211; succeeded [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how two things can have all the same basic ingredients and yet end up wildly different. A Maclaren MP4-12C and a Fiat 500 are both cars: yet few would disagree that they&#8217;re worlds apart.
Similarly, even though Emery Borka has &#8211; in Steve Santa and the secret of the Last Parfait &#8211; succeeded in [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Voynich Translation, Chapter 4&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/20/the-voynich-translation-chapter-4</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/20/the-voynich-translation-chapter-4#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Here are links to chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Enjoy!] * * * * * * * Absent-mindedly dusting breadcrumbs off a beard no longer there, Graydon Harvitz paused in thought at the glass doors of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Was the building a sublime symphony in concrete for keeping [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[[Here are links to chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Enjoy!]
* * * * * * *
Absent-mindedly dusting breadcrumbs off a beard no longer there, Graydon Harvitz paused in thought at the glass doors of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Was the building a sublime symphony in concrete for keeping old books [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Leonardo da Vinci fruity theory roundup&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/09/27/leonardo-da-vinci-fruity-theory-roundup</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/09/27/leonardo-da-vinci-fruity-theory-roundup#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What would it feel like to be a footballer with no goal? An actor with no stage? A projector with no screen? Or (finally getting to the point) a pseudohistorian with no infamous historical figure to attach his/her nutty theories onto? All of which is why I feel sorry for poor old Leonardo da Vinci. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[What would it feel like to be a footballer with no goal? An actor with no stage? A projector with no screen? Or (finally getting to the point) a pseudohistorian with no infamous historical figure to attach his/her nutty theories onto?
All of which is why I feel sorry for poor old Leonardo da Vinci. He [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>FS: cursed cipher manuscript, slightly singed&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/08/10/fs-cursed-cipher-manuscript-slightly-singed</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/08/10/fs-cursed-cipher-manuscript-slightly-singed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aleister Crowley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fate dealt Stanley Picker a strange card that day: he just happened to be ambling past the burning library on his way home from work as the rampaging mob surged out into the street pushing trolleys of rare books and manuscripts. Amidst all this mayhem, Stanley only had eyes for the odd little cipher manuscript [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Fate dealt Stanley Picker a strange card that day: he just happened to be ambling past the burning library on his way home from work as the rampaging mob surged out into the street pushing trolleys of rare books and manuscripts.
Amidst all this mayhem, Stanley only had eyes for the odd little cipher manuscript balanced [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Cipher crossword puzzle!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/07/07/cipher-crossword-puzzle</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/07/07/cipher-crossword-puzzle#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something to amuse and infuriate you: an enciphered crossword I devised this morning. Can you solve it? 1 Across &#038; 1 Down: Italian ciphers. (5) Enjoy! PS: yes, the 5&#215;5 square is deliberate, you need to fill the whole thing in. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ciphermysteries.com%2F2011%2F07%2F07%2Fcipher-crossword-puzzle'; addthis_title = 'Cipher+crossword+puzzle%21'; addthis_pub [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something to amuse and infuriate you: an enciphered crossword I devised this morning. Can you solve it?

1 Across &#038; 1 Down: Italian ciphers. (5)
Enjoy!
PS: yes, the 5&#215;5 square is deliberate, you need to fill the whole thing in.  

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		<title>&#8220;The Voynich Variations&#8221; by Edoardo Albert&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/01/25/the-voynich-variations-by-edoardo-albert</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/01/25/the-voynich-variations-by-edoardo-albert#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ciphers in Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just to let you know about a nice little cipher-mystery-themed short story just published on the Daily Science Fiction website: &#8220;The Voynich Variations&#8221; by Edoardo Albert neatly merges the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s inaccessibility with modern orchestral music&#8217;s inaccessibility, with a magical flourish to tie it all up. Enjoy! addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ciphermysteries.com%2F2011%2F01%2F25%2Fthe-voynich-variations-by-edoardo-albert'; addthis_title = '%26%238220%3BThe+Voynich+Variations%26%238221%3B+by+Edoardo+Albert%26%238230%3B'; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just to let you know about a nice little cipher-mystery-themed short story just published on the Daily Science Fiction website: &#8220;The Voynich Variations&#8221; by Edoardo Albert neatly merges the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s inaccessibility with modern orchestral music&#8217;s inaccessibility, with a magical flourish to tie it all up. Enjoy!

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		<title>&#8220;The Cadence of Gypsies&#8221; on its way&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/12/03/the-cadence-of-gypsies-on-its-way</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/12/03/the-cadence-of-gypsies-on-its-way#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 09:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Fat List]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here comes another book to add to my Big Fat List of Voynich novels: the just-about-released-any-day-now The Cadence of Gypsies by Barbara Casey. It has a fairly straightforward setup: On her 18th birthday Carolina Lovel learned that she was adopted and was given a letter written by her birth mother in an unknown language. After years of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here comes another book to add to my Big Fat List of Voynich novels: the just-about-released-any-day-now The Cadence of Gypsies by Barbara Casey. It has a fairly straightforward setup:
On her 18th birthday Carolina Lovel learned that she was adopted and was given a letter written by her birth mother in an unknown language. After years of research [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Leonardo&#8217;s unexpected elephant&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/26/leonardos-unexpected-elephant</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/11/26/leonardos-unexpected-elephant#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, much as I deplore the relentless, adulatory stripmining of Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s works, I do rather enjoy seeing infra-red images of paintings, glimpsing the construction marks left beneath the surface. And so I have nothing but good things to say about Discovery News&#8217; series of infra-red images of Leonardo&#8217;s &#8220;Adoration of the Magi&#8221;. I like the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[OK, much as I deplore the relentless, adulatory stripmining of Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s works, I do rather enjoy seeing infra-red images of paintings, glimpsing the construction marks left beneath the surface. And so I have nothing but good things to say about Discovery News&#8217; series of infra-red images of Leonardo&#8217;s &#8220;Adoration of the Magi&#8221;. I like the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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