Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00926)

At 08:47 AM 5/15/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Alex,
>In response to your question of why the super-long and very boring quote
>collections don't get hollered on:
>No, these folks operate under the assumption that books should be sold by the
>pound.  The longer something is, the more they assume it has great
>significance and thus must be tolerated for its great, albeit usually hidden,
>wisdom.  Short postings, on the other hand, lack the proper amount of letters
>per word to be considered to be of much value.
>I having learned to write as a young radio reporter in college when every
>word meant air time, find this particularly distressing as I am used to being
>able to say as much as possible with as few words as possible, a situation
>often condemned by learned theosophists such as his supreme wordiness Ken
>Wilbur, before whose altar of total verbiage all true seekers after the truth
>of verbology must do obesiance and supplication, with all humility and the
>appropriate sacrifice of ghee and small children, served with a nice orange
>sauce and crabmeat stuffing, while burning incense and taking strange drugs
>along with copious draughts of wine, followed by the general copulation of
>the assemble masses before going on jihad against the unholy brief ones.
>In any event, I suggest we do the appropriate penance and make our
>conversations into book-length manuscripts which will undoubtedly find favor
>in the sight of our more wise and holy brethren.
>I doubt they will get the point but it sure was fun writing it.
>
>Chuck the Atrocious MTI, FTSA
>Heretic
>Troublemaker
>
>Chuck:

You couldn't have had any more fun writing that than I did reading it! But
honest to you know who, every word you wrote is true (though I won't swear
to the orange sauce). what ever happened to "BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF VIRTUE"?

ALEXIS