Sir, – I have noticed that films and books produced during lockdown tended to be very long, as if the lack of urgency of the time encouraged a certain long-windedness.
I feel this has infected letters to The Irish Times too. I have a system for dealing with these long letters. I read the first paragraph and the last.
I’ll keep this short. – Yours, etc,
GEMMA McCROHAN,
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