Explanation
The following was found written onto dried lotus petals, tucked in a bottle, far from shore, by a whaling ship in the South Atlantic. A team of scholars have worked over the text, dried out the blurry, and recorded the changes wrought by the sea. Apparently the water was saying something, spelled in misspellings across the scrolls.
Why not start with the original, and then, if you can't figure out its secrets, the decomposed.
