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"Shorter and punchier" makes sense if it was originally intended to be published in serial form.

• thomascgalvin 9y ago
  And the author was paid by the word.
  • Anticapitalist 9y ago
    You get Dickens-esque wordiness from pay-by-word, not short and punchy
  • quirkot 9y ago
    most authors are paid by the word, even today