About the Lecture Hall
This is an age of instant gratification: instant tea, instant coffee, instant chocolate, and on and on. It has spilled over into our reading habits. We want quick “reads” – articles of three minutes length or less. This is not all bad because it makes second-rate writers like me work harder to cram all the useful information we have on a topic into an easily handled compact unit. It is a very good antigen for the deadly disease of verbosity. But there are some subjects that cannot be handled so succinctly. And there are some readers who do not mind reading longer dissertations if the increased verbal barrage contains something worthwhile. That is why we have this “Lecture Hall’ section.
Some of these discourses may be on rather profound topics, but I have not dared to write them in the jargon of the theologian or the philosopher or whatever field it may be. First, I don’t know enough to write that way, and, second, I don’t want to write that way. We intend here to make all subject matter, whether of a lighter sort or a so-called deep genre, as plain as we can without sounding as though we were pandering to a class of elementary school kids.
So – what can I say more? This is the gateway to “longer dissertations.” Jump into these pools of words, splash and have fun! Enjoy yourself! But above all -- be edified!
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