"I had my good wit out of the 'Hundred Merry Tales, Beatriceice declares in "Much Ado About Nothing," referring to a popular collection of the day.
(In another text message, he told the boy's mother the same thing, adding, "Got him in nuts once I noticed. But I felt so bad, n I'm all tearing that butt up when needed!" He also wrote that she would probably get "mad at me about his leg. I got kinda good wit the tail end of the switch").
Even if they did, there is an iron law of nature at play in the unforgiving world of Internet love: a bad picture trumps a good wit.
In the opening tune there was also more than a passing nod to the airy textures and good-natured wit of such British outfits as Bill Bruford's Earthworks.
Earlier, the Princess, listening to her friends banter, had said, "Good wits will be jangling".
Good of heart, keen of wit, sharp of mind, dressed in tatters and utterly bereft of cash, he brings joy to young lovers and virtue to the greedy.
Larijani was in typical good form, with the quick wit of a man who had studied Kant.
But in artfully paralleling Vivian's literary research with the obsessive medical research of an abstracted young doctor (and former student of Vivian's) who attends her (a very good Greg Keller), "Wit" gently reminds us of how the seemingly infinite mind divorces itself from the finiteness of the body that sustains it.
I wanted to protect the good kinds of wit from the bad.
Instead, whoever answers these questions does so with a good dash of wit and a healthy perspective.
