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That analogy doesn't make much sense...
by RivieraKid 11y ago
That analogy doesn't make much sense...
- coldtea 11y agoHere's another way to put it: "I have heard many People say, 'Give me the Ideas. It is no matter what Words you put them into.' To this I reply, Ideas cannot be Given but in their minutely Appropriate Words." - William Blake
- RivieraKid 11y agoOh ok, I get the point... But for a lot of articles it seems that 90% of the value can be conveyed with 10% of the length, so I usually just quickly skim it - unless it's the type of text where the value is in the experience of reading and not information (stories, poems, ...).
- coldtea 11y agoI guess that can be true for technical articles the most (e.g. just get to the instructions, numbers, results etc), but probably not as easily for things like this Fry post.
- RivieraKid 11y agoYeah, that was my point, that this desn't apply for Fry's writing.