One shouldn’t consider anything worth preserving, just because it’s written down. Length doesn’t matter and the fear that there isn’t enough there is childish. Out of a hundred changes, a single one may appear trifling and pedantic together they can raise the text to a new level. No improvement is too small or piddling to be carried out. One is too close to the intention, “in thought,” and forgets to say, what one wants to say. Whoever wants to express something, is so carried away that they are driven along, without reflecting on such. First word of caution for authors: check every text, every fragment, and every line to see if the central motif presents itself clearly enough. Frankfurt School: Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno 1951īehind the mirror.
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