Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.

Sentence 1: If our software is occasionally too fat, we developers fall back on the same excuse philosopher Blaise Pascal offered three centuries ago for his verbose I have only made this [letter] longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Sentence 2: If our software is occasionally too fat, then it means more work is required
slate