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Bookninja friend Sharon points in her FB feed to this beautiful thing—The Codex Seraphinianus: a visual encyclopedia of an imagined world designed by an artist to make you feel what kids who can’t read feel when they look at a book for adults: that sense that it even though they don’t understand it, it’s saying someething important. I see a corollary here.
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January 7th, 2010 at 11:33 am
See link above for a succinct, somewhat cutesy history of the Codex & its cult.
January 7th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
I once spent a morning paging through a copy of this book with a 4-year-old, as she explained each illustration to me. Not surprisingly, the book makes perfect sense to her as a handbook for being.
January 7th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Codex Seraphinianus is such a great book! It’s surreal and weird. We had our hands on a copy when a coworker bought it, and we did a feature on it:
[see link above]
It really is such a bizarre, but beautiful, object.