If one were to look at these texts as though they were a blend of several different writings from another language, consisting of poems, prayers, tantric quotations, transcriptions, and some narration and commentary accidentally blended throughout, new patterns among the words begin to emerge. I want to be careful and use everything in my untrained skills of textual analysis to preserve the meaning of the work while discovering different ways to parse and present it to the reader. It's these perceived groupings that I am attaching verse numbers to. The aforementioned " study" version serves as my scratch-pad for restructuring the text into stanzas by attempting to identify smaller groups of ideas within the text. 11:15 is an example of this dilemma.Įvery chapter is stylistically different and varies in both tone and organization. Other times, I couldn't be sure if the meaning of a phrase refers to the sentence that precedes it or comes after, or both, and have instead seemingly awkwardly put a verse number there to avoid breaking up or adding the insinuation of any meaning. Sometimes, I just could not decide which end of a verse to tack a small sentence on to. There are long, quoted passages that can be tricky to follow but there are lots of three-word sentences as well.
Usually, this means splitting them by sentence but not always, as I tried to balance against length as well. My goal, gleaned from research, was to break up each verse at the end of a reasonable or cohesive statement. Much of my impressions admittedly come from the New King James Bible, such as the Psalms, Daniel, and John, but really I tried to look at a lot of various examples, including the Book of the Law from Thelema, which was one of several influences on the Lessons. In this way, I also managed to defy starting every single paragraph with a verse number. The result was a set of verses, the amount of which vary wildly by chapter, their length not withstanding. After anchoring the numbers, I copied and reassembled the text into their original paragraph forms. Instead, I went into each chapter to break them down into new and more poetic formats, in order to better judge the flow of ideas, thus inadvertently producing a line-by-line style which I call my study edition. To bring that sense of authenticity into the Lessons, I felt that I should not simply trace along each sentence or paragraph to drop in another number as it might lack that authentic appearance of language barrier. A lot of the punctuation marks in common use today only came about as ways for copyists to more clearly communicate the meaning og one text in another language. While deeper investigation brings some understanding to their pattern, it remains clear that trouble recognizing the arrangement comes due to the fact that these works were originally composed in another language. Observing an English copy of the Bible, one might notice that there is a lot of variation in the placement of verse numbers.
It wasn't enough to just tack a number onto each newline. In another sense I figured, if I'm already going to all this trouble, why not just use the original source? The chapters are stored within Morrowind.esm and I have dumped each one to an individual file, available on GitHub for comparison's sake. Originally, I had used the UESP text, but ran into some minor issues, discussed below. Have a look at some of my side projects: MDunmeris, an early and still rough language and religion resource, and Hayghin Daedric font, which is a customized version of Ayembedt.Īs the basis for the text used in this version, I have dumped the original HTML from the retail edition. As a secondary, maybe this could serve as a set of reference manuscripts to encourage the adoption of a standardized verse system for this book. The goal is to have fun and work on a project related to my current campaign. This is a rendering of The 36 Lessons of Vivec that introduces a verse numbering system, rubrics for certain words, and several optional formats, in the hopes of making it easier for readers to reference specific parts of the text. The 36 Lessons of Vivec Rendered in markdown with verse numbers and rubrics.
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