RAThor - Friday, March 15, 2019 7:00 AM

allinadazework - Friday, March 15, 2019 2:14 AM

"Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: "
Shakespeare advocates keeping it short and sweet.
As does Chekhov... "Brevity is the sister of talent".
"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had time to make it shorter." ~Blaise Pascal (1623-1662).
Blaise Pascal implies that it is lazy to be otherwise!
I'd aim for the 50 minute mark - if it gets up to the hour with a bit of Q&A then that's not too bad!

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“[…] the art of the future will not require that complex technique which disfigures the works of art of our time and requires great effort and expenditure of time, but, on the contrary, will require clarity, simplicity and brevity – conditions acquired not by mechanical exercises but by the education of taste.â€
Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace -- 1296 pages.