RE: VMs: Blanks

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Don,

At 00:20 04/03/2004 -0700, Don Latham wrote:
> Right on, Nick. If I carry out your exercise, scenes from the movie version
> of the Name of the Rose pop in. A bit earlier, I suppose, but perhaps
> apropos?

Erm... I guess that would depend on which particular scenes you chose. :-)

> I have tried, not too seriously perhaps, to think about the people who
> generated the VM in terms of the characteristics of the text they generated.
> B for example, seems sloppier than A; the pen runs dry, may not be properly
> prepared or wiped. USW.

I think this is a good line of physical deduction, located close to both 
palaeography (mainly concerned with writing traditions & the ideas behind 
stroke construction) and graphology (concerned with inferring an 
individual's personality from the accumulated pragmatic variations from 
their handwriting, such as inconsistencies & variations in size, shape, and 
pressure, etc).

However, I suppose you're talking more about inferring and comparing two 
individuals' writing methodologies - their preparation, their attention 
span, their skill, their experience, their age? etc. I wonder just how far 
you could take this line of reasoning?...

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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