The text is equally spare, with no
wasted words as it explores real and fantasy bravery.
It would simply be
wasted words if the courts didn't act on the warnings that were given.
George Economou has said that the two most important features of a translation are "compression and economy of diction" and "linguistic accuracy" and that "a poem with no
wasted words can only begin to be justly represented in another language by a poem with no
wasted words.
The idea was for the album to be more stripped back than its predecessor, with no
wasted words or musical interludes.
In genres such as romance, science fiction, Westerns, and fantasy, though, readers still seek that apex of urgency, that payoff in sex or violence, and the corollary seems to be that after the boom or the bang, all else is
wasted words.
