Having read through this, it strikes me as a version of the change that takes place in Pierre Bezhukov in War and Peace after his captivity. One saves time by n

Having read through this, it strikes me as a version of the change that takes place in Pierre Bezhukov in War and Peace after his captivity. One saves time by not having to read a thousand pages to get to it; one loses something also, given that those thousand pages are of War and Peace.