Brevity

A colleague who knows of my interest in writing-related matters alerted me to these two studies:

• Dennis Upper, The Unsuccessful Treatment of a Case of “Writer’s Block,” Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (Fall 1974).
  
  
• Robert Didden, Jeff Sigafoos, Mark F. O’Reilly, Giulio E. Lancioni & Peter Sturmey, A Multisite Cross-Cultural Replication Of Upper’s (1974) Unsuccessful Self-Treatment Of Writer’s Block, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (Winter 2007).
  

Rarely (never?) have so few words said so much. (Compare with Lord Polonius, who, in Hamlet, famously uttered “brevity is the soul of wit” while prattling on.)

(cgw)