Walt, One of my favorite documents is Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. He spoke at the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery, a great battlefield of our civil war. He spoke to the assembled multitude, after famous orators of the time spent several hours speaking to the crowd. His address is one page and one of the most powerful in the English language. I posted a copy on my wall at work - to say one page is enough! see it here... http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm We don't need more than three minutes to communicate what we know. Regards, Bob S
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Walt <ldott...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/8/2013 1:13 PM, Bob W wrote: >> >> On 8 Oct 2013, at 19:04, Walt <ldott...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> FWIW, I read through the entire thing without a problem. Though, >>> admittedly, I am a pretty wordy writer. >>> >>> Still, it just doesn't strike me as all that out-of-place to muse at some >>> length on-topic in the context of a discussion list, or even on Facebook for >>> that matter, since they truncate comments and provide a link to the full >>> content for anyone who cares to read the whole thing. >>> >>> I think the tendency among many readers toward a "tl;dr" or "OMG, it's >>> full of words!" reaction to internet commentary that goes on for more than >>> 250 words is lamentable in a lot of ways. And if we can't go on and on about >>> things we have a passion for, it seems to me we're robbing ourselves of some >>> of the joy in having passions at all. >> >> Everybody's entitled to go on and on about anything they want. >> >> But if you want people to read it, make it easy for them. There are many >> tried and tested ways of doing that. Unless you're Joyce or Kerouac (and >> even then...) a colossal brain dump is rarely one of them. >> >> B >> > One of the lamentable consequences of the "tl;dr" trend is that three > minutes of reading is now considered a colossal brain dump. > > -- Walt > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
