31-07-2020, 01:02 AM
(31-07-2020, 12:46 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(30-07-2020, 11:41 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
I was not suggesting for a moment that the author was "doing calligraphy for fun"
Then what was the fun? You have suggested on numerous threads that there might be a high proportion of "nullwords". Which means the actual content would be quite low and the writing itself would be mostly work rather than fun. It's more than 200 pages.
It is noteworthy that in this thread I never used the word "fun" and have already explained why I haven't used the word "fun".
What was the pleasure that Newton and many other scientists got from their work? (Note I use the word "pleasure" not "fun".)
The use of filler text is a theory that I have expressed elsewhere. I don't see why the use of filler text goes against the narrative that it was written for "intellectual pleasure". Writing filler text is extra work whether the manuscript was written for pleasure or not, but if it is felt by the writer to be a necessary part of the process then that is that.