I’ve entertained a similar hypothesis myself.
As for its relation to SL4, I’d say that it sounds roughly right—I wouldn’t go as far as to say that there was “no real subject matter”, but it’s true that the list eventually ran out of worthwhile things to say that hadn’t been already discussed.
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I’ve entertained a similar hypothesis myself.
As for its relation to SL4, I’d say that it sounds roughly right—I wouldn’t go as far as to say that there was “no real subject matter”, but it’s true that the list eventually ran out of worthwhile things to say that hadn’t been already discussed.