[split] Implications of multiple scribes

[Mark Knowles]

If we have brothers here, then maybe shared family closeness and interests and peculiarities may have made it seem to be a reasonable family project. Nevertheless this all sounds very strange. For a group of people to agree to write a book together that was only readable amongst themselves seems odd; though is it really so odd, I don't know. Looking back writing such a book readable or unreadable seems a bit odd anyway. I suppose such a thing could start as a small exercise and through being added to cumulatively become a big project, that does seem quite reasonable. It may never have been planned or expected to become such a large text.