31-07-2020, 01:40 PM
Do you get pleasure writing your blog?
The author could have got lots of pleasure writing the manuscript; I can easily imagine doing so in his/her shoes.
As should be clear, I think the text is meaningful overall, though I believe null/filler text has been used to help conceal the true text, in the same kind of way that null characters are used in other ciphers, as part of the cipher itself.
I think if it were not meaningful it is unlikely to be equally pleasurable unless the author was mentally challenged in some way.
I only addressed the question of motivation as I often see it brought up. For example, Koen recently suggested that the manuscript could have been a "masterpiece" designed to gain access to a guild or secret society or something of the like. It has often been suggested that it was a hoax designed to be sold in order to make money. These are very material motivations. It seems that the idea that it could be a product of someone gaining "intellectual pleasure" for its writing is rarely, if ever, addressed. I find that a more plausible explanation than the idea that the author was motivated by fame, money, status, recognition etc.
However I do agree that determining motivations is hard. It is sometimes hard for an individual to determine their own motivations, let alone those of others. Nevertheless motivations can suggest what might have been the history of the manuscript.
The author could have got lots of pleasure writing the manuscript; I can easily imagine doing so in his/her shoes.
As should be clear, I think the text is meaningful overall, though I believe null/filler text has been used to help conceal the true text, in the same kind of way that null characters are used in other ciphers, as part of the cipher itself.
I think if it were not meaningful it is unlikely to be equally pleasurable unless the author was mentally challenged in some way.
I only addressed the question of motivation as I often see it brought up. For example, Koen recently suggested that the manuscript could have been a "masterpiece" designed to gain access to a guild or secret society or something of the like. It has often been suggested that it was a hoax designed to be sold in order to make money. These are very material motivations. It seems that the idea that it could be a product of someone gaining "intellectual pleasure" for its writing is rarely, if ever, addressed. I find that a more plausible explanation than the idea that the author was motivated by fame, money, status, recognition etc.
However I do agree that determining motivations is hard. It is sometimes hard for an individual to determine their own motivations, let alone those of others. Nevertheless motivations can suggest what might have been the history of the manuscript.