Unless you're British and very funny. The opening to Hitchhiker's Guide is incredibly verbose, but the end of each sentence is a pay-off.
Unless you're British and very funny. The opening to Hitchhiker's Guide is incredibly verbose, but the end of each sentence is a pay-off.
That's a completely different genre. And constructing a joke is a very different process to writing serious prose. H2G2 might be very wordy but each word contributes something and is there for a reason.
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