Compression: Chad Patton
“There are times when a writer is able to concentrate a group of different stories into a brief interaction of careful syntax. The ability to compress a story is a representation of mutual respect between author and reader. The author respects the reader enough to understand her or his intentionally unfilled gaps, whereas the reader respects the author for his or her trust. Compressed literature, as a medium, creates a more exaggeratedly conducive symbiosis between reader and writer. The writer, in less words (or, equivalently, less interactions) must analogously and literally tell multiple stories as to live up to the expectations of a larger story, the one of which the compressed is only a snippet.” — Chad Patton
