Re: 2 Things: One Interesting, One Not

David Peterson wrote:
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Second, has anyone heard of this thing called the Codex by Sarafina, an
Italian?  I was looking at it today.
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The Codex Seraphinianus?  You've seen one?  Where?  Where?!  I covet...

I first read about it in the Hofstadter reference, and more recently on the
web, and fell in love with it at sight, although I've never actually seen it
(erm...).  Seriously, it looks like an incredible work, and if you do have
any information about where one can get a copy, I'd be very interested to
know.  I heard that it's not available via Amazon, although I'm happy to be
corrected on that.

References:
Douglas Hofstadter, 'Metamagical Themas', ch. 9 (p. 229 in my Penguin
edition) has about a page on it.
http://www.io.com/~iareth/codindx.html
http://www.math.bas.bg/~iad/serafin.html
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/cassidy/almaleh_translation.html

Jonathan.
'O dear white children casual as birds,
Playing among the ruined languages...'
W. H. Auden, 'Hymn to St. Cecilia'