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/ Well, anyway, I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized \
| that like most books, it had too many words. The plot was the same one that |
| all James Bond books have: An evil person tries to blow up the world, but |
| James Bond kills him and his henchmen and makes love to several attractive |
| women. There, that's it: 24 words. But the guy who wrote the book took |
| *thousands* of words to say it. |
| Or consider "The Brothers Karamazov", by the famous Russian alcoholic |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It's about these two brothers who kill their father. |
| Or maybe only one of them kills the father. It's impossible to tell because |
| what they mostly do is talk for nearly a thousand pages. If all Russians talk |
| as much as the Karamazovs did, I don't see how they found time to become a |
| major world power. |
| I'm told that Dostoyevsky wrote "The Brothers Karamazov" to raise |
| the question of whether there is a God. So why didn't he just come right |
| out and say: "Is there a God? It sure beats the heck out of me." |
| Other famous works could easily have been summarized in a few words: |
| |
| * "Moby Dick" -- Don't mess around with large whales because they symbolize |
| nature and will kill you. |
| * "A Tale of Two Cities" -- French people are crazy. |
\ -- Dave Barry /
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