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[Antonio García Jiménez]

Stefan, The tubes in the inner circle of Pisces, from which the female figures emerge, are the same tubes found on folio f78r, featuring the same rows of dots. On that folio, the fluid flows through those tubes. They are not barrels.

  You have an unconvincing way of explaining why the figures have their hands and feet inside tubes—an iconographic detail of great importance for understanding the metaphorical meaning of Quire 13. 

   I’m amused by what you say about the women lined up—who look like they’re marching—actually dancing an exotic dance in the water. It turns out you have more imagination than I do. As for Lady A—as you call her—you say she is showering beneath those pipes suspended in mid-air. I think it is easier to imagine that she has poured down through them, since Lady A is merely the embodiment of a fluid.

   Stolfi, you're outdoing yourself. The idea that some girls don't have the right to the spa's hot water because they're in the economy class is truly unbeatable.

     You told me a story about the spas in the Naples region that made me feel like I was watching a TV documentary.

     You speak about The Late Painting theory in capital letters as if it were dogma. The colors are not used inappropriately. Colors also convey ideas, and the authors of the Voynich used them with full awareness.