I am so glad for this topic. I really don't like spoilers, but if it is a spoiler about something, which I know I couldn't normally discover or deduce or never suspected to be that deep, than I am glad for the person who reveals what is under the shroud of mystery.
Thank you all of you guys for this (I believe I am correct if I say the users of Dwarf Fortress are better at figurative thinking):
http://fallingawkwardly.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/the-metaphysics-of-morrowind-part-1/ http://fallingawkwardly.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/the-metaphysics-of-morrowind-part-2/ http://fallingawkwardly.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/the-metaphysics-of-morrowind-part-3/ http://fallingawkwardly.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/the-metaphysics-of-morrowind-part-4/ As the guy stated: "Elder Scrolls lore is layered, multifaceted and chaotic, like a… a crystalline, non-Euclidean onion" and this is only one aspect of it.
I for example interpreted this passage differently:
“The immobile warrior is never fatigued. He cuts sleep holes in the middle of a battle to regain his strength.” - 36 Lessons, Sermon 23
“I do that too,” I smirked, “it’s called taking health potions in the inventory screen while the game is paused.”
When I first read this sermon, the immobile warrior for me was the immobile (additional detail: plump and basement-dweller) body of a player, who can save and quit the game, and sleep. His time in reality however is at instant from the perspective of the game world, ergo the "immobile (keyboard) warrior" is never fatigued.
One thing reading one's abstract explanation, or his/her own writing (no matter if it is scientific, philosophical, religious or mythological), and actually understanding it. But creating such intricate works on your own is another.
I talk about creations that are not arbitrary. You could create works only for yourself for the sake creation, that act is authorative in itself, but that doesn't mean the work itself will become or remain arbitrary. I hate those who see a painting or a novel, and prise it because other people did the same (presumably socially important figures), yet when it comes to the importance of the work to them, or the meaning of it, they stay silent. Sometimes it is also the fault of the creator, who knowingly designed something with no inherent message, and invent later some pseudo explanation, what is clearly has no connection to it (even if we couldn't exactly know what the artist had in mind during the act of work, there are always good leads if it is an arbitrary connection).
However if the creation, becomes more in itself , capable of transcending its original meaninglessness, it defeats the arbitrariness which it was designed in. However there is a limit of this, which depends on the complexity (how much free "intellectual area") and also on the context of said work.
A satirical joke:
An actual piece of art that costs 1 million dollars.
So what is the point of all that? I though about it, what would an aliens species think about the Elder Scrolls, and how would they interpret it (books in it), if some of us humans ourselves, couldn't get the covert messages without help. This also reminds me that the story of Antigone itself, has at least 7 mainstream interpretations.
However I am not just thankful for you guys, but also for myself
, since I started this thread, and without that i would never come to this "obscure knowledge", about the lore.
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