Gould

[Gar Lipow]

In all fairness to Gould, he died before getting a chance to revise 
this. I suspect Gould shared a problems with me: I have no problem 
producing reams of stuff - which then needs to be revised drastically in 
order to be shrunk. If you ever compared one of my first drafts to one a 
final output you will notice the end result is about one fourth the 
length. I seem to remember some famous writer's apology: "I am sorry 
that this letter is long as I had not time to make it short".   In 
short, when criticizing Gould's style, just remember that you are 
looking at a first draft. Look at almost anything else by him, and I 
think you will have few stylistic complaints.