A reconstituted text
R. Sale > 10-01-2024, 08:41 PM
Much linguistic investigation is involved with methodology. Much less with the choice of the text to be investigated. One potential solution intended to defy general investigation is to construct and distribute a hidden text. Progress toward a solution then requires the recognition and reconstruction of the hidden text. In the VMs the hidden segments of text are denoted and recognized by the use of Stolfi's markers - patterned boxes in circular text segments.
The reconstituted text includes the outer marked band of White Aries, the inner marked band of White Aries, the marked band of Cancer, the outer band of the VMs cosmos, the two marked halves of the central rosette, and others.
Analysis depends as much on the subject as it does on the method. The markers are a system intentionally built into the VMs.