Distinguishing Characters

[R. Sale]

There's more than one way to skin a cat - as they say. There's more than one way to encode a written text. While these various intellectual ways of manipulating the writing system during the relevant C-14 era clearly need to be investigated, and I applaud your efforts, Mark et al., there is another, very effective and simple means to hide the intended communications of the VMs, and that is to physically hide the text. Let the greater part of the written text actually consist of nonsense. Nonsense is an excellent deterrent to decryption. There are markers and various other artistic ways in which certain text segments might be designated.

Apparently, there are some who expect to read every vord of the VMS, cover to cover. Why is that?

*Apparently* there are a fair number of pages missing from the VMs. Why did they get cut out?? Just because they were "pretty"?

@nablator: Perhaps rithmomachia??