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Indeed, we searched in vain for many incontrovertibly real, corporeal \u201cthingies.\u201d No sign of the Renaissance crypto-text, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, which will be on everyone\u2019s lips as soon as the Da Vinci Code mercifully fades from the best-seller lists.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1145\/1059791.1059814","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2005,8,3]],"date-time":"2005-08-03T08:30:55Z","timestamp":1123057855000},"page":"64-65","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["File under \"Unknowable!\""],"prefix":"10.1145","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Stan","family":"Kelly-Bootle","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"320","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2005,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_1_1_1","volume-title":"Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Simon & Schuster","author":"After Dan Brown's","year":"2004"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_1","unstructured":"Meilir Page-Jones my favorite Welsh Method{olog}ist notes a quirk in Welsh orthography: f is pronounced v as in the English if! 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