The Book Switch Theory

[asteckley]

The signature in the VM fits well within Tepenec's style. Only when you have "forgery" on your mind, you will point out differences and call it fake.

Surely you can see the irony in your words. The signature in the VM fits well to being that of Jakub Hořčický only when you have the "need for a connection to Marci's mention of Rudolph" on your mind.   And I actually never claimed it was a "fake". I have only claimed that here is no simply no hard evidence that it is authentically that of Hořčický.

As to what people should have said but didn't say: how are we to know the complex network of personal motivations at play? How are we to know the millions of words spoken but not written down for posterity? Arguments of "x should have said more about y" are uninteresting, because we have no way of knowing how much x said about y over a century ago. Or what x's motivations were to write about z instead of y.

Sure -- there are millions of words spoken about all kinds of things. That does not provide evidence for something either. It boggles my mind that you simply don't see the silliness of this.
In this case "absence of enviidence" is exactly that... "absence of evidence".

Of course, if you want everything to be forged, then the signature is forged. 

Of course, if you want everything to be authentic, then the signature is necessarily that of the person you need it to be to support your story.