Codex Seraphinianus Decoded (Paperback)

Paperback. CODEX SERAPHINIANUS DECODED. For forty-five years, the Codex Seraphinianus has been the world's most beautiful unread book. Luigi Serafini's illustrated encyclopaedia of an alien world. 359 pages of impossible plants, surreal animals, bizarre machines, and anatomies that could never exist has captivated readers since 1981. The script that fills its pages is flowing, hypnotic, and, Serafini claimed, entirely meaningless. He was lying. Using Marco Ponzi's neural-network transliteration of 41,107 Serafini words, morphological analysis of an agglutinative grammar, and a 72-band frequency translation framework, this book presents the first complete English translation of the Codex Seraphinianus, page by page, chapter by chapter. Inside: - The full story of how the Codex was decoded.- Page-by-page translations for all 11 chapters.- Discover that Chapter 5 describes ape-shaped steam automata in fog-filled chambers.- Learn why Chapter 8 is where the script describes itself: it is the book's hidden jewel.- Find the glossary on pages 357-358 that Serafini left at the back of his own book, the Rosetta Stone nobody noticed for 45 years- Complete 223-entry lexicon, 72-band frequency map, and translation methodology. SERAPHINIANUS TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Flora2. Fauna3. Bipeds4. Physics5. Machines6. Anatomy7. History8. Language9. Food10. Games11. Fashion12. Glossary Ciao! This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…