I enjoy reading these essays. But that joy is undermined by having to slog through an unnecessarily long preface.
Now I don't intend for my first comment here to come off as impolite, but it is unpleasant to have to go through a bunch of extra text just to get to the meat of the essay.
I enjoy reading these essays. But that joy is undermined by having to slog through an unnecessarily long preface.
Now I don't intend for my first comment here to come off as impolite, but it is unpleasant to have to go through a bunch of extra text just to get to the meat of the essay.
I enjoy reading these essays. But that joy is undermined by having to slog through an unnecessarily long preface.
Now I don't intend for my first comment here to come off as impolite, but it is unpleasant to have to go through a bunch of extra text just to get to the meat of the essay.
That is mainly for newcomers and it is italicised to separate it out.