This is so painfully true, please, do yourself a favor and read the old papers of your field! But, it takes courage to imitate our witty ancestors! I've been s

This is so painfully true, please, do yourself a favor and read the old papers of your field! But, it takes courage to imitate our witty ancestors! I've been sneered at by many reviewers for my attempts ("unscientific style"?!). The best I've managed to pass through so far is starting a paper with a quotation from an old Agatha Christie novel: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2019.05.015 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2019.05.015 (free copy here: https://core.ac.uk/reader/237464116 https://core.ac.uk/reader/237464116 or at your local Sci-hub domain).