02-03-2023, 12:15 PM
Not everyone is subject to a conformist view, but people do interact with the world around them - conformists just as much as reactionaries. Completely new things are rare, and inventions often build upon earlier concepts. And frameworks remain familiar. For example, the mystics may have produced works that seem special and innovative to us, but they were very much children of their time. The works of Hildegard, unique as they may be, could have never been produced outside of the author's Latin Christian environment. She doesn't need to conform to that environment, but we still need this context to explain her work.
Now to your question, if someone wanted to create something "as puzzling as the Voynich MS", the most puzzling would probably be to write nonsense text according to some rules (ala Timm), because then it would be unsolvable, hence forever puzzling. But I'm not sure if this is the right question to ask, since we don't even know if the MS was made with the intent of confusing others. It may simply have been a private exercise (by a group of people), which happens to puzzle us.
Now to your question, if someone wanted to create something "as puzzling as the Voynich MS", the most puzzling would probably be to write nonsense text according to some rules (ala Timm), because then it would be unsolvable, hence forever puzzling. But I'm not sure if this is the right question to ask, since we don't even know if the MS was made with the intent of confusing others. It may simply have been a private exercise (by a group of people), which happens to puzzle us.