Thus The Guardian today. “If paragraphs continue to shrink at their current rate, they’ll soon cease to exist altogether,” explains the newspaper. “Should we care?” I have long noticed the shrinkage of the paragraph, and especially in newspapers, and so I went for the article. It delves into the history of the paragraph, which apparently goes back some four centuries, and discusses its shrinkage in recent times. A single-sentence paragraph looms. Nowadays, the reading habits are shaped by the World Wide Web. The average time spent on a page is fifteen seconds only. According to online gurus, the ideal length of a blog post is two-hundred words. And so on. Of course, I could not but think of my Residua as I went through the article. But I could not care less about the bulk of the visitors to the website. The only concern of mine is the paragraph length I find to my liking as the key reader of my own writings. And the answer is perfectly clear in my mind: it is somewhere between a hundred and two-hundred words, but an occasional paragraph of three-hundred words is just fine with me. Most of my pieces of writing are a paragraph in length, though. One thought with a number of qualifications at a time is the best way to go. A little bit of search on my website brings all the thoughts on a particular subject together in no time. Dear reader, are you still around?