Two ADN letter-writers have recently decried my war on wasted words. I refer them to Shakespeare’s Polonius: Brevity is the soul of wit.
Which, in further pursuit of conciseness, I would rewrite thusly: Tighter is brighter.
— Stan Jones, Anchorage
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