Once I tried to condense what novelists usually spread over hundreds of pages, and say it in a couple of paragraphs.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Fogs and mists arise from the land and water, condense in clouds, and obscure his glorious face, but they come down in rain or snow, clearing the atmosphere, and we say the sun shines again, when, in truth, he has been shining all the time.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
Bearing in mind these definitions, we may condense much of what precedes into the proposition: Eclipses of either sun or moon can occur only when the earth is at or near one of the nodes of the moon's orbit.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock