The only value it has is to remind that verbosity for the sake of verbosity (or terseness for the sake of terseness) is not valuable.Īs for Tolkien in LotR, he uses too much for a novel, but enough for his purpose, which is not really a novel but a exploration of his world on a set of narrative rails. This is why what Le Guin says is on the order of a truthism and not actual advice because it provides zero guidelines as to what's enough. Dickens used the verbosity he needed to for his story, and not more. What you're failing to grasp is that what's needed to tell a story varies by story and author, so there's no baseline level of verbosity that Le Guin is refering to except being enough.
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