Style and simplicity

[fpb]

I am no linguist; but one of the things that stick to you after decades of historical reading is a certain amount of linguistic lore. And my long three-year wrestle with Dark Age British history has given me a particular amount of competence in the historical aspects of languages in a very obscure time indeed. So, when a fanfic writer appealed to

Comments

[jordan179]

As poetry, it would work better as

Wit beyond measure,/Man's greatest treasure

As prose, as

Wit is Man's greatest treasure.