Hemingway thought brevity was the soul of wit

The trouble is that he had no wit and very little soul to begin with. He had brevity, I'll give him that. Orwell had the same philosophy, he thought the locution "not un-" as in "not unfavorable" should be done away with entirely, for reasons of economy. That's the trouble with these pragmatists. they are always cutting corners. Wodehouse didn't do that. So what you do now is, you tell Chat GPT, look buddy I'm getting paid by the word here, let's have some padding.