If anyone has proven that brevity is indeed the soul of wit, it’s James Richardson. He graced us with his concise and insightful aphorisms in Volume 54, Issue 4: The Rat’s Nest, in which he noted the following truth:
“No one in human history has ever written exactly this sentence. Or anyway these two.”
Well, we’re not the only ones to recognize his talents. Richardson is now a recipient of a 2013 NEA grant in poetry. Hopefully that $25,000 will buy a lot of single-sentence wonders.
Read more of Richardson’s aphorisms here.