Our excellent colleague from Excelsior, Mr. Roger Valbelle, rises spiritually, in the little unpublished poem below, against the "laziness" of the reader who demands ever shorter papers:

KEEP IT SHORT

In this mechanical century,
the demon of people in a hurry
with long texts is making fun of it:
"Twelve lines is enough."
The age of speed
in the ebb and flow,
experiences some laziness:
We look, we no longer read.
The short article, let us welcome it,
but people who go on foot
find in the sheets only pieces of "papers".

There is short and short. There is short with substance (Anatole France thus excused himself for a long letter: "I did not have time to make it shorter.") and there is short and empty.
It is against this last formula, of course, that Mr. Valbelle protests.

Addressing the reader, here is the opportunity to read or reread the first poem of "Fleurs du Mal" by Charles Baudelaire "To the Reader" "...My twin My brother..."