When the topic of mysterious books comes up, you think of the Voynich Manuscript. But it's far from the only book that utterly confounds readers. It's the first of ten incomprehensible books included in this video. Some of them are clearly nonsense, either the result of mental illness or a joke, but still compelling enough that readers try to figure them out. That can work as a sort of Rorschach test, in which we see what we want to see. Others are possibly fiction misunderstood as nonfiction, or else are only a mystery because we don't know the story behind it. Who knows? The Voynich Manuscript itself may be the result of an ancient joke or a delusion of some sort, too.
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