> En réponse à Tim May :
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>> (As the URL suggests, it's a Flash animation, so you may want to skip
>> it.) Inside the site, there's a letter from Stephenson which talks in
>> part about the message, and how and why it was written.
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>>
http://www.baroquecycle.com/letter1.htm
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>> There's a link from that page to one by Todd Garrison, who was the
>> first person on the web to decipher the message. (There's a still
>> image on that page, if you skipped the flash but wanted to look at
>> it.)
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> Well, all this is very interesting! :) I didn't know this author. Has
> anybody already read his other books? For what I've read on that webpage,
> he seems to have the writing style and inspiration of an American Umberto
> Eco. But I may be wrong, having never heard of this guy before.