Today, the Linguist List posted that folks at MIT have reproduced Noam Chomsky’s Original 1955-56 Thesis in PDF format. They found the slowly deteriorating microfilm in some Harvard archive and decided to scan it and post it.
The dissertation is 919 pages long. Nine hundred and nineteen pages. 919 pages before computers. Before word processors. Before spell check. The man does not mess around.
Note to self: if you want to start a new field of language science, start writing now.
Nod and Smile 
Nah! Today’s diss. is supposed to be short and sweet and starting a new field in the study of language is so passé…
Still, it’s a good idea to write a lot. Practise writing.