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Excellent article; at 3,860 words, it's a bit long, but recommended. Here's a much shorter response, with more pathos: "Oh. And if your reading this while sit
by iokevins 11y ago
Excellent article; at 3,860 words, it's a bit long, but recommended.
Here's a much shorter response, with more pathos:
"Oh. And if your reading this while sitting in some darkened studio or edit suite agonizing over whether housewife A should pick up the soap powder with her left hand or her right, do yourself a favour. Power down. Lock up and go home and kiss your wife and kids."
-- Linds Redding, "A Short Lesson in Perspective"
Read the whole thing:
http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/03/11/a-overdue-lesson-in-perspective/ http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/03/11/a-overdue-lesson-in-p...
- cossatot 11y agoIt's too long because he likes to write, lives to write, and writes to live.
- TheTrotters 11y agoAll the more reason it should have been shorter.
- majewsky 11y agoReminds me of the famous Blaise Pascal quote: "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." (also attributed to Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot and others)
- Mz 11y agoYou know, I get accused a great deal of being too long winded. But long experience tells me that shortening it too much means I am not going to actually be understood. So, perhaps he has reasons other than Blow-Hard-itis for thinking that all those words were actually necessary.