If I reason on trivial things that is because those things are not trivial to me I - Introduction I have the terrible habit of being unnervingly concise. As the son of old-school print journalists, that comes with the territory. You see, I learned how to write at school, but my parents taught me how to write *well* (in my native language). The newsroom trained them on the importance of writing correctly and succinctly. Their whole lives were dictated by how many characters they could fit in whatever shape the editor reserved for them. I embraced their religion, and no amount of effort seems sufficient to make me a wordy writer. For most of my life, that was more useful than harmful. A lot of what I wrote had a defined length, I even worked for a newspaper for a while. And tiny stories were more likely to be read by whoever I wanted to impress. That works well for fiction. A short story stipulates its own context according to which its sentences are meant to be evaluated -- the inn...