@icedquinn it might be meaningless. but its not just noise, it was constructed so that it would have entropy like a natural language. but if you actually do the math it's not sufficient to code any known human language. I am not ruling out that the author was so dedicated to creating a believable hoax that he worked out a way to make the writing look more real to the subconscious mind than a random placement of letters but then they didn't go all the way and make it sufficient to plausibly be human writing. I don't even know how someone could have done this back then, fake the entropy of language while completly avoiding using a substitution cipher.