Ashley (ashley_y) wrote,
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The Codex

I've wanted a copy of this book for about ten years, when I first read about it in The Happy Mutant Handbook. This is a limited single-volume edition currently sold by Franco Maria Ricci, though properly it ought to be in two volumes. It came with a free hardback day-planner.

Unfortunately the foreword by Italo Calvino is in French.


Each chapter has a short overview:

Flowers, and the reproductive cycle of trees:


I call these "semipeople":


I call this air writing machine a "typefloater":

These are more like industrial clothes (fashion clothes are shown elsewhere):

The nature of speech and writing:

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