(From the decryptor’s foreword)

We, Thierry Bardini and Dominique Lestel, cannot claim the paternity of the book that follows. In fact, it appeared to one of us in the shape of a manuscript on an optical support one morning in summer 2010, in the boot of an Oldsmobile 1973, which had finished its automobile life in the Iron Hill Wood in Quebec. Together we worked relentlessly on its transcription, during that beautiful summer, from the machine code in which it was encrypted to our colorful natural language.