Core conundrums?

[Koen G]

I don't quite understand why you first point out all the weird stuff about the VM, and then single out the writing. 


I still remember the first time I read about the VM. I was waiting at the doctor's and there was an issue of EOS magazine. I'm always happy to find those, usually they only have things I'm not interested in: gossip, fashion and cars. Anyway, there was an article about mysterious books. One of them was the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., which I often mention as an example of what a "modern" hoax looks like. Another was the VM. 

When I read about the VM some more at home, what struck me was exactly the opposite of just one thing: it was everything. The nymphs are weird, the diagrams are weird, the script is weird, the fact that there are foldouts is weird. These are all things one would notice in a few minutes, without bringing in deeper study of plant images. And if in those first minutes one would look at the last page, it would become clear that even the marginalia are weird. 

That is the conundrum, in my opinion: why is almost everything unusual?