00:00Most of my friends, people around me like bit by bit scrolls.
00:03My college magazine wants me to cut it short and give it in five lines and present it.
00:07So what can we do about that?
00:09Cut it short.
00:12If I know that nobody speaks German here, it would be stupid of me and actually disrespectful of me
00:20to speak in that or some other language.
00:23Similarly, if I know that attention spans are shrinking, I'll have to give something
00:28that you can more conveniently accommodate.
00:31Every chapter that you see there, that book, was actually, initially, four or five pages.
00:37For your friends, your generation, I squeezed it to one or two pages.
00:43And that's what took most of the time.
00:45It was really hard, you know, just clipping everything and yet retaining the essence of it.
00:52If that's what the reader demands, you'll have to do that.
00:55But at the same time, the reader should not dictate the spirit of the work.
01:00The reader, however, must be honoured in terms of form of the work.
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