Not every thing is a lesson or needs to be a lesson. More to the point, this post.

I'm as familiar with, and devoted to, The Sermons as anyone here, yourself included. I've learned they're many things; part lesson to the Neravrine, part devotional prayer to God, part character development, part world-building. Some of it is written lucidly and some written in what MK calls phase-trance, where even he wasn't sure what would be the product.

And yes, it is a silly question. The fact the Sermons touches on it doesn't make it any less a silly question. And the answer isn't made any more significant because it's rendered in poetical language or has a fourth wall acknowledgement that it's a game.

This reminded me of the jarring moment in "Dungeon Siege II" when a merchant on the path exiting the Dryad encampment tells you helpfully that if you have played "Dungeon Siege II:PSP" you can give him a code to get special merchandise, or something to that effect.

Bethesda is better at this type of thing: not breaking immersion.

Yeah, although I think a bit of the meaning was lost in translation. You see, it's kinda' hard to sound condescending when you're typing. Hence, the long winded diatribe.