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I wonder how anyone could consider this as being "so many words", or being so time poor that they couldn't spare 4 mins to read it...
by 4ndrewl 7y ago
I wonder how anyone could consider this as being "so many words", or being so time poor that they couldn't spare 4 mins to read it...
- troutwine 7y agoI share the GP's complaint. It's less about the length -- it's not all that long -- but about the meandering nature of the form. The introduction of the author's family is not extensive enough to grab my attention as a reader, nor does the banality of the situation make them feel like anything other than a small bit of padding, nor do I feel closer to the author for our shared experience. Had the article started at "Modern American society..." this would have been a much snappier opener, though I'd argue that paragraph 4 should be rescued in some fashion.