tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423050459919800481.post5990309854376978611..comments2024-03-04T05:26:22.273-08:00Comments on Propnomicon: The Big Book of MadnessPropnomiconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073463298965255652noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-423050459919800481.post-43035587473172482742014-02-18T16:40:31.096-08:002014-02-18T16:40:31.096-08:00Henry Darger spent 43 years compulsively writing a...Henry Darger spent 43 years compulsively writing a series of private stories and made accompanying illustrations of a fantastic nature. The major part of the work was, The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. While not “insane” they were certainly obsessive and encompassed a writing mania.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger <br />http://hyperallergic.com/65318/on-henry-dargers-15000-page-novel/ <br />http://www.hammergallery.com/artists/darger/darger.htm <br />http://www.folkartmuseum.org/darger <br /><br />Although not the work of a madman the Voynich Manuscript is a book with vividly drawn plants and animals with an unknown script in an unknown language. It had been previously dismissed as a sham, the work of a modern hoaxer and the like for decades. New scholarship may show it to be a medical book about Central American plants and their uses written in the 1500s.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript<br /><br />An image Google of Voynich manuscript will turn up a number of lavishly illustrated pages with the unknown text.<br />CoastConFanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07250561260148656254noreply@blogger.com