Ever get the feeling you've nothing left to say? And don't feel like saying it? I do, once or twice a year. That's when I give up blogging once and for all, like in the fall of 2005, two months after starting the blog. If a man can't say all he has to say in two months, then--
Wordiness is not an excess of words, but a dearth of ideas.
The deluded are prolix.
In each post I try to present ideas as concisely as possible. It just looks prolix, because there are 5,300 posts. Still, it would be nice to boil it all down to a series of aphorisms, maybe even numbered, so one can ascend stepwise from one truth to the next. Let me think about how to do that and get back to you....