Back in the pre-WWW days you couldn’t just whip open your phone and command it to give you a rare book: You had to brave odd looks in rare bookstore after bookstore by people who had never heard of The Codex Seraphinianus and who highly suspected you had either hallucinated the existence of such a book or had heard of the book from someone else who had hallucinated it.- Dangerous Minds, on the (now extant) Rizzoli edition of the Codex Seraphinianus
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Footnotelet: What does it mean to have a 'French' edition of this (ostensibly untranslatable) book?
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