#essentials

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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#fire #imagination #middle-ages #obviousness #writing

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. ↗

— Ronald Knox

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#cover #enough #essentials #good #interest