From Anecdotal Evidence:
> "Persistently obscure writers will usually be found to be defective human beings."
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> A truth I had been waiting to hear for much of my life. Willful obscurity (which is not the same as complexity) is favored by writers contemptuous of readers. Avant-gardistes often fancy themselves superior to people who merely like reading books.
Huh. I am persistently obscure in my writing, and am pretty sure it's rooted in being contemptuous of most readers.