Wit.Soul = Brevity;

[dr_tectonic]

While editing my posts (because I can't just write something and post it, I have to edit first), I have noticed that I tend to add lots of line breaks.

I'm starting to think that shorter paragraphs are inherently funnier.

But I'm not sure.

Is this funny?

IS IT?!

Comments

[toosuto.livejournal.com]

Short people are funny. I would say this translates to paragraphs as well. Why not?

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

It's something about reading on a screen versus on paper. On a dead tree, you can get the proper response to the mention of an idea like bananas growing out of Barry Manilow's armpits even if it is in the middle of a long, overdrawn sentence amidst many more in a long paragraph. On the screen, however, it helps to chop it up.

Compactness

[baronet.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of compactness instead of excessive white-space. Brevity (==wit)is different from pregnant pauses (==witless).