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Post by Gray Librarian on May 4, 2015 20:19:59 GMT
Below is an (incomplete) list of books, manuscripts, and other such works to which I have encountered references but of which I have been unable to locate copies. If anyone can help me locate any of these, I would be very grateful. - Untitled personal diary, Arthur Dennison
- Untitled personal diary, Lemuel Gulliver
- The Silent Gondoliers, Simon Morgenstern
- Love's Labour's Won, William Shakespeare
The Tempest, William Shakespeare [Thank you, Andrew.]
Gospel of Judas, unknown author [Thank you, Andrew.]
Voynich manuscript, unknown author [Thank you, Leaf.]
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Post by Andrew on May 5, 2015 6:03:36 GMT
This is apparently different than I thought it would be; I am confused why somebody would not have access to The Tempest, or why somebody who knows about multiple worlds would not have access to Love’s Labour’s Won. I was also pretty sure that enough was known about the Gospel of Judas and the Voynich Manuscript that anybody could get them too. I’m surprised to say I don’t know about the personal diaries. I’ll post about that in a different thread shortly. For now, I have attached The Tempest. I have the Voynich Manuscript here, but it is too big for my connection method to let me attach it; I will see if there’s something I can do about that tomorrow (it’s almost 11 PM here, so I’m going to bed soon). I don’t have Love’s Labour’s Won, but I should easily be able to get a copy of that for you tomorrow too; I know somebody who could get a copy trivially. I should be able to get you the Gospel of Judas tomorrow too; I probably shouldn’t need to talk to the guy I’m getting Love’s Labour’s Won from for it, but I might (I think I have links to it, but they are not in my primary language). As per the regulations about certain messages being censored, I won’t be able to attach The Silent Gondoliers, despite it being readily available, due to copyright reasons (which, again, I’m surprised is an issue for people here; see my pending post later). Tempest complete text.html (178.86 KB)
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Post by Gray Librarian on May 5, 2015 6:26:28 GMT
Thank you very much. It is always a pleasure to expand the collection.
It is sometimes the case that worlds are similar but not identical, so something that seems commonplace in your world may not be as commonplace on the multiversal scale. For example, William Shakespeare is primarily known as a fanfiction author, and his original works such as The Tempest are often found only in rumor.
As for having access to Love's Labour's Won: it is precisely through contacts such as yourself that such access can exist. Collecting these books is always a work in progress, and there must always be a first acquisition.
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Post by Leaf on May 5, 2015 23:34:43 GMT
I did some searching and managed to come up with a copy of the Voynich manuscript. Hopefully the attachment will transfer... Attachments:voynich.txt (223 B)
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Post by Andrew on May 5, 2015 23:54:55 GMT
Ah, yes, thank you. I tried attaching that, but my connection only allows smaller files (presumably because six megabytes is huge in terms of 1995-level technology, while I expect it’s tiny for you if computer technology has advanced at all in the 1000 years between us). As for Love’s Labour’s Won, my demon contact says that in this world that is another name for Much Ado About Nothing, which I’ve attached in case your world only had the former name and you didn’t even know you were missing it. I have also attached what appears to be from skimming a translation of the Gospel of Judas into English. It looks like it’s an incomplete translation, and the place I found it is not known for translating things, so you might be able to find something better. Next time I talk to a demon, I’ll try to get a copy of the original; he couldn’t do it earlier today because the author is unknown, but the incomplete translation is probably enough to get it. I’ll also note that in my world the consensus among summoners and daeva is that the Christian religion is primarily a corruption of the actual angels, demons, Heaven, and Hell. If Christianity exists in other worlds without daeva (which it appears to, given that you’re asking for that here instead of asking a demon yourself), then I would not be surprised if many of the details were different.
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Post by Gray Librarian on May 6, 2015 1:37:36 GMT
Thank you both.
I believe that there exist worlds in which Love's Labour's Won is a distinct work from Much Ado about Nothing. However, the version of Much Ado about Nothing that you supplied appears to differ in several key passages from the majority of versions with which I am familiar; notably, the version that you supplied ends with the marriages of Beatrice to Benedick and Claudio to Hero, instead of Benedick to Claudio and Borachio to Margaret.
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Post by Andrew on May 7, 2015 4:14:39 GMT
Based on the partial translation and other knowledge, I was able to get a complete copy of the Gospel of Judas. EDIT: Which I then actually bothered to attach. Attachments:OOCGospelOfJudas.txt (323 B)
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Post by Gray Librarian on May 7, 2015 5:10:09 GMT
Thank you very much.
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