Thus spake Ezra Pound:

“The reader will often misjudge a condensed

writer by trying to read him too fast…the secret of

popular writing is to never put more

on a given page

than the common reader can lap off

with no strain WHATSOEVER

on his habitually slack attention.”

|From ABC of Reading, Copyright 1934 by Ezra Pound

ABC of Reading was published as A New Directions Paperback in 1960 by New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York.

_____ Dennis Mellersh, content journalist