The arrogance of compression—and I concede that there is such a thing, as there is of irony—lies in its aspect of wilful concealment. But compression can also acknowledge a necessary incompleteness, an acceptance that the reader’s thought cannot simply be dominated, and that his work in making something of this writing is also that of making something for himself (Bernard Williams). My awful presentation today—compressed not out of virtue but out of sheer panic—was nothing but a waste of time if the audience didnt make something for himself or herself.
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