Thursday, December 09, 2004

Darjeeling's Crypt-O-Quote

Following is a quote written in a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If X=O then X is not equal to anything else. O is not necessarily X but it could be. Today’s clue C = B. Good Luck.

An English bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush in the White House.
--S. Darjeeling

Crypt-O-Quote No. 2: y=x

I think, therefore I lose.
--S.Darjeeling

The Darjeeling Archive has been written entirely in Crypt-O-Quote. Crypt-O-Quote is a system which allows you to manipulate a sentence or entire paragraph so that it comes out in Crypt-O-Quote. This is not copywritten (?) yet but may be soon. Take the word “crypt” for instance. In Crypt-O-Quote the word “crypt” becomes the word “house”, but typing in the word house returns the word “avenue”. It is a constantly changing system where “a is equal to b but b is not equal to a and, later on, a is not equal to b”. Articles remain the same. Syntax is corrected for continuity. This allows a writer to write two or more story lines simultaneously. Reference The Voynich Manuscript which provides the main codex for Crypt-O-Quote. Darjeeling deciphered the Voynich MS by cutting out the circular wheels of the diagrams and reattaching them so you could turn one wheel and realign the elements on the wheels according to the star diagrams on the manuscript page. Darjeeling then assigned alpha-numeric characters to the letters of the “words” in the MS. Characters were assigned according to numeric sequences which were generated by the star configurations. This produced a series of what are called in the MS, “Statements” (Voynich MS p 67). These Statements represent a factual account of the evolution of life in the universe. Darjeeling continues to work on the MS but for now is concentrating on other things.






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