These drawings want to explain some important processes, but despite all the effort, the drawing ability is so poor that it seems rather helpless. Streams of water forming into small ponds. Especially the almost helpless, and incredibly poorly drawn depictions of women kneeling in bathtubs, sticking their hands into hoses with fluids in them. It has some leaves and and it has some roots too…“īut as I got deeper into the Voynich Manuscript, I began to develop respect for whoever wrote this book. I already wanted to provide a funny translation saying: „… first I went up the stairs, then I went down the stairs again …“ or „… this is a plant, a green plant. „Trivial stuff.“ „Why all this worldwide attention?“ When I set out to write about this subject, at first I wanted to make fun of it: „What does a book from the Middle Ages want to tell us anyway that we don’t already know?“- „Nothing,“ I thought. So far, no one, not even the famous military Enigma code breakers around Alan Turing, has managed it. Today, there is a great worldwide interest in cracking this code.He donated the book to the library of Yale University in 1969.In 1961 it was given to the bookseller Hans P.After his death it was inherited by his wife Ethel until 1960.My teenage years didn’t have nearly as much livestock fucking, I don’t know about yours… The Last Picture Show by Larry Mcmurtry.You’ll be going about your day, and bam, you’ll be reminded of this book. True horror loosely based on true stories that doesn’t rely on the supernatural to terrify. Knockemstiff Ohio by Donald Ray Pollock.High Rise by JG Ballard, if you want a book that starts with a guy eating a dog in a luxury high rise and only gets more atavistic from then on.Anything by John Ajvide Lindqvist for those “what the fuck did I just read” moments.

What the narrator is going through is beyond fucked up, and is not even entirely allegorical. I second Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.Oh, and lots of esoteric philosophical weirdness about the nature of knowledge, all in a Southern Gothic style that sweats off the page. Man is conceived in sin and born into corruption, and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren.So much fucked up and wrong in that story. I’m way too old and jaded to get fucked up by a book.

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