Re: The Hoax Theory (was: VMs: Codex Seraphinianus...?)

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Nick,

Nick Pelling wrote:
> 
> Certainly, the VMS' code / secret language might seem to indicate paranoia,
> or maybe anxiety: but perhaps its repetitious dain/daiin-iness might also
> seem correlated with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Alternatively, its
> numerous nymphs (and the rubbed-through hole in one folio) might also
> suggest a driving obsession with sex: or the whole MS could be the
> long-term result of a "lone gunman's" schizoid (or perhaps schizotypal?)
> personality disorder... etc etc.

	I've known people with OCD (see the movie "As Good As
It Gets"; 
quite accurate!) and I don't think the VMs author(s)
had it.  I also wonder
about paranoid schizophrenia; the writing is certainly
impenetrable, but the 
pictures are unusual rather than cryptic.

> Personally, I see the Voynich as a quite remarkable, rationally-conceived
> and deliberately-executed document - and so suspect that looking for flaws
> in its author's psyche to explain the apparent language structure might be
> something of a "cop-out"... a much easier answer than admitting the
> distinct possibility that the author was rationally able to out-think you.

	I also agree here; saying that it's "outsider art"
doesn't say a whole 
lot.  

	Those who don't know about James Hampton might enjoy
my website on 
his secret writing; his oeuvre is perhaps comparable to
the VMs:
http://www.geocities.com/ctesibos/hampton/index.html

As I said, I like to think that it's the sole surviving
of some 
subculture, it seems so well thought-out...

Dennis
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