verbminx

I think the cipher page... which I read in its entirety tonight... is not well-written enough to support its theories, and contains much historical vagueness. I suppose I'd like to see the whole book, but since it was written twenty years ago, I'm pretty sure it's been discredited. (Also, I believe a lot of the "Bible Code" stuff was also based on the idea of vowelless consonants - certainly biblical hebrew was written that way - & that attempt at decoding has been pretty much discredited by the cryptography community.) It's really more interesting as a mystery, I think... though from the other things I've read of it in the past day or so & what I know of alchemy, I also think the chances are good that it's some sort of alchemical text.

I should look at the Nancy Drew books. My stepmother worked at a huge used-book store when I was young, and also, she had a tendency to go to a lot of yard sales and junk shops. As a result I had the chance to read a lot of the older Nancys (where ND is so, so retro-glam!) and Dana Girls and so on. She collected them.