An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published
At the end of the day [it's] similar to the Rorschach inkblot test. You see what you want to see. You might think it's speaking to you, but it's just your imagination.
Plato meets game theory: How Schelling points explain the power of great books
Idealistic communal decisions over language sparked competing factions—constructed languages, Mandarin, and Latin—with coherent but incompatible rationales, preventing consensus on a single language.