On purpose

[Mark Knowles]

Eating pasta takes about 20 minutes, a movie a couple of hours, reading a novel... a few days or a week.

Creating the VMS... months, maybe a year or two.


So maybe we need some examples that take months or perhaps a year or two.

The first thing that occurs to me is a much larger work than the Voynich, namely the writings of Henry Darger.

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The very notion that the VM could have been made with no purpose other than pleasure is anachronistic.

I wrote: "Of course there likely was more than one motive for writing it, but I don't see why we should not consider pure pleasure as a significant motivating factor."