Distinguishing Characters

[Mark Knowles]

I have come to discard anything in explaining the Voynich that feels like it comes from a novel.

Yes, I tend to go with what seems like the most prosaic theory that fits the facts that we have. I believe that most of the time reality is dull compared with the flights of fancy that we see in fiction. Clearly we have one overriding aspect of the manuscript that is not prosaic namely its writing, so we are stuck trying to make sense of it in an otherwise prosaic context.