All that text up to this point is useless. When you’re telling a story, you have to include a lot of useless text in order to motivate or set the scene for the actual story that comes up next or just to make the story sound like an actual story instead of just a sequence of events. What amazes me is that so many people seem to focus on the “literary throat-clearing” and miss the actual story!

https://devblogs.microsoft....20101116-00/?p=12273