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In that case, the Voynich manuscript might be like the rongorongo script invented on Easter Island, now unreadable after the culture that made it collapsed.
Though no one can read the Voynich manuscript, that hasn't stopped people from guessing what it might say.
Those who believe the manuscript was an attempt to create a new form of written language speculate that it might be an encyclopedia containing the knowledge of the culture that produced it.
Also, contemporary historians have traced the provenance of the manuscript back through Rome and Prague to as early as 1612, when it was perhaps passed from Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to his physician, Jacobus Sinapius.
In addition to these historical breakthroughs, linguistic researchers recently proposed the provisional identification of a few of the manuscript's words.
We're serious scientists, so we had to include a manuscript for good posterity.
Upon the author’s death in 1940, the manuscript remained unpublished.
A censored version was eventually printed in the 1960s, while copies of the unabridged manuscript continued to circulate among underground literary circles.
"The Master" is a nameless author who’s worked for years on a novel but burned the manuscript after it was rejected by publishers– just as Bulgakov had done with his own work.
So I just lifted my face up from the manuscript and I directed my comments to an empty corner of the room.
I think the manuscript of this movie was written on the piece of toilet-paper.
The filmmaker stayed true to the most accurate account of the story published in 1894 which includes an 1846 manuscript by Richard Williams Bell (son of John and Lucy Bell and younger brother of Betsy Bell) titled "Our Family Trouble."
He recounts a number of events, tied together by his writing of a manuscript (the "Monster" of the title), some sad, some uproariously funny, all in his characteristic, sarcastic manner.
The acting, the dialog, the manuscript, the sound, the lighting, the plot line.
Based on the official description---woman discovers that her dead husband's manuscript contains material that could pose a threat to national security---I expected a taut geopolitical drama.
In reading the boy's harrowing manuscript which depicts the early life and sexual abuse at the hands of his brutal parents, Noon is captivated and wants to help.
The Secret of Kells is an independent, animated feature that gives us one of the fabled stories surrounding the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript from the Middle Ages featuring the four Gospels of the New Testament.
This animated feature (a co-production between Ireland, Belgium and France) deals with what is surely one of the oddest subject ever for a movie: the creation in the 9th century of a famous illuminated manuscript, the book of Kells.
The premise is that an accomplished playwright, whose star is falling, receives a magnificent manuscript from a former student and so he plans to off his protege and appropriate his play, to the (loud) protests of his wife.
When he's told that the old fellow has died of a heart attack, Gooding quite simply appropriates the manuscript, copies it, adds his name as author, and destroys the original.
What was saved are only fragments of the original manuscript and thus director Federiico Fellini was hamstrung to complete the entire work.
The frame would only work if Gooding decided to assume authorship of the manuscript of the "dead" man.
Many people would not have done that so why would anyone go to all the effort of writing the book on the tenuous assumption that Gooding would assume authorship and in the process destroy the original manuscript?
What have Miramax done with the original manuscript.
The veracity Mitsukos horrific ordeal is challenged when, the possibility is raised that these events are fictional; taken from the manuscript of a controversial horror authors latest book.
The manuscript certainly could have needed a little more work..but all in all I say they did the best of it.
Powerful viking movie shot on Iceland, using a cowboy manuscript for sure!
This is all in his head, I think, or in the computer, and finally in the manuscript displayed at the end.
The manuscript was good enough and the scenes were quite interesting.
An abridged version appeared in French in 1816, and in English in 1824, but the complete work remained in manuscript form until its publication this year as part of an ongoing project, under the editorship of Philip Schofield of University College, London, to publish Bentham’s collected works.
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