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Old 11-15-2009, 10:34 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by cmbs View Post
This guy calls himself a translator, he has translator notes that say the book was written in the 14th century. He makes it look like a translation of an old document.

Are you saying that's not what it is, and that instead, he has written it himself?
Yes. It's not real, it's just a device to lend it an air of authenticity - like when Laurie R. king pretends the Mary Russell novels are really written by the wife of Sherlock Holmes.

If this was real, it would be an amazing source text, which would certainly have been very well known.
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