According to the Provisional Schedule in the first English printing of bolo’bolo we should now all be living happily in bolos..., enjoying hospitality everywhere, working some, playing some, sleeping some and not worrying about anything. Nation-states, armies, big companies, 9-to-5 jobs..., etc. should be no more than dim memories... [and there should be] a patchwork of …

How much of history is lost to illegible handwriting; and how much of the rest is reliably transcribed? Scholars of the Eldarin languages must endure the uncertainties of Tolkien’s occasional scrawl. Peter Gast was reputedly the only one who could interpret Nietzsche’s hand once the latter’s vision had deteriorated. To learn to read Goebbels’ handwriting is …

I have chanced upon an advisory called Rael’s Citation Guide for Weird and Difficult Sources. Disappointingly, though predictably, it turns out to deal with things like historical government documents; so here (from someone who once needed a notation for citing nonexistent people) are some tentative suggestions for those with really esoteric or exotic needs:

There’s something peculiarly beguiling, perhaps because also frustrating, about mysteries hidden in plain sight. The fourth Kryptos code might be the most brazen, flaunting its undeciphered self on a sculpture outside the C.I.A. headquarters. Then there are the texts that might be meaningful: someone might verify tomorrow that the Voynich Manuscript can be deciphered to produce …