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 Just learnt about nyctography because of some cheesy YouTube short. It's an invention by Lewis Carroll to help him jot down his ideas at night without turning on a light, apparently. Thought you bitcoin heads might like this for a seedphrase storage or something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctography

Nyctography is a form of substitution cipher writing created by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1891. It is written with a nyctograph (a device invented by Carroll) and uses a system of dots and strokes all based on a dot placed in the upper left corner. Using the Nyctograph, one could quickly jot down ideas or notes without the aid of light. Carroll invented the Nyctograph and Nyctography as he was often awakened during the night with thoughts that needed to be written down at once, and didn't want to go through the lengthy process of lighting a lamp only to have to then extinguish it.

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