The author of the world’s strangest book says a stray cat wrote it
Luigi Serafini spent the late 1970s in Rome drawing an encyclopedia of a world that doesn’t exist — plants that morph into animals, machines with no clear purpose, architecture that defies physics — all annotated in a language he invented from scratch. The result, the Codex Seraphinianus, was published in 1981 and has baffled readers …
