>I don't think the goal of any serious writing is to do it in as few words as possible. Even if that's true, it's irrelevant. They were responding to the claim

>I don't think the goal of any serious writing is to do it in as few words as possible. Even if that's true, it's irrelevant. They were responding to the claim that ithis particular piece was written succinctly, which it manifestly was not.