On: If Sapiens were a blog post

[OJFord]

I don't mean the hours, I mean the "cut-down version of".

[latexr → OJFord]

Similar reason. Explaining how it was made (by cutting it dow) has no bearing on the why, which was the point.

[OJFord → latexr]

No it wasn't, you were replying to:

> Is the author summarising his own impressions of Sapiens (surely acceptable), or literally lifting the original text of the book and taking it as his own [...]?

The first sentence about cutting it down answers that.

[latexr → OJFord]

> No it wasn't, you were replying to

No, I was not, I was replying to the section I quoted (hence quoting it, that’s how that works).