There are approximately 300,000 textual variants among the manuscripts, most of them being the changes of word order and other comparative trivialities.
Some of these minds having failed to write imaginative stories, turn to that aristocratic type of criticism which magnifies trivialities beyond their real size.
The facets of this minimalism manifest themselves in many ways, through the triviality of the subject, through short forms, or through concise and bare phrases.
