“Poetic concision demands the avoidance of a pair of words when a single word will suffice.” “What’s that?” “What did he say?” Several stood up with the intention of grabbing him by the collar and dragging him from the room. But before they could get their hands on him, a burly fellow in the fifth row spoke without rising to his feet. “With all due respect to poetic concision, the male of the species was endowed with a pair when a single might have sufficed.”
