Start of the ramble

"Every word exists for a reason. The writer specifically crafted each word to convey something specific and nothing was put to paper to be extra."

"I like chocolate, and monkeys. While the thought of chocolate covered monkeys entered my mind it somehow ultimately didn't sound tasty enough to make me steal a simian to dip in the vat of melted Hershey's I'd prepared."



How do you rectify these two quotes? On the one hand I think back to the instructor who told me the one (no, not the monkey one). On the other, I have to consider the veracity of that statement given my need to tell folks about chocolate covered monkeys. There's no deep meaning to it. However, it haunts me. I really like the idea of chocolate monkeys and while that is specific, I bet if I tried hard I could get rid of a few words, maybe nick a to or an and somewhere. You tell me.