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This could be a new summary format.

In Search of Lost Time: "lost youth -> melancholy adulthood"

Odyssey: "angry gods -> misplaced hero"

The Bible: "believe it -> live forever"

I can see an arXiv paper coming:

"An Equational Logic for Automatic Text Summarization via Term-Rewriting: Or Lambda, the Ultimate TL;DR"

There are plenty of articles that can be summed up in four words. That doesn't mean they aren't worth reading to get the bigger picture, details, examples, etc.

I agree, although I think the "bigger picture" is only interesting if the story is too specific and the "examples" part would only be useful if the subject matter was hard to understand. My personal feeling was that the whole text didn't really add anything.

One needs to be a good storyteller to be able to relate and communicate a point to an audience. I think this article succeeds in doing this.