Space for Fragmentation
You were
complicit (!) in calling this piece an auntie: part Uncle HuxleyÕs literary
device [afterall, it held syntheses] and part not [in its multilinearity]. It
was a short piece, but also of indeterminable length [whatÕs the page count
anyway?] It was unable to give things full play, but allowed fuller play than Time
Must Have a Stop (1944).
ÒWhile
brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population provide counterexamples.Ó (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay,
March 2010)