Editing Codex Seraphinianus (section)

==Contents==

The book is in eleven chapters, in two sections. The first section appears to describe the natural world of flora, fauna and physics. The second deals with various aspects of human life, including garments, history, cuisine and architecture. Each chapter seems to address a general encyclopedic topic, as follows:

# Types of flora: strange flowers, trees that uproot themselves and migrate, etc.
# Fauna (animals), including surreal variations of the [[horse]], [[hippopotamus]], [[rhinoceros]] and [[bird]]s
# An apparently separate [[Kingdom (biology)|kingdom]] of odd [[bipedal]] creatures
# [[Physics]] and [[chemistry]] (generally considered the most abstract, enigmatic chapter)
# Bizarre machines and vehicles
# The humanities: biology, sexuality, [[Indigenous peoples|aboriginal]] peoples, including some examples with plant life and tools (e.g. pens, wrenches) grafted onto the human body
# History: people (some only vaguely human) of unknown significance, with their times of birth and death; scenes of historical and possibly religious significance; burial and funeral customs
# The Codex's writing system (which is to say, the – or probably, a – writing system of the world (if a world it is) from which the codex originates, or which it documents), including punctuation marks, the text being written, and experiments performed upon the text
# Food, dining practices, garments
# Bizarre games, including cards, board games and athletic sports
# [[Architecture]]

After the last chapter is a table of contents or index, followed by an apparent [[afterword]] whose writing is more casually rendered.<ref name=ttot />

Two plates in the sixth chapter contain lines of French text, a quote from [[Marcel Proust]]'s "[[In Search of Lost Time|À la recherche du temps perdu: Albertine disparue]]" (''In Search of Lost Time: Albertine Gone''). The words scattered on the floor of the illustration are from the same book.