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Look up wit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wit is a form of intelligent humour—the ability to say or write things that are clever and typically funny

truth". Tristram Shandy draws on a tradition of learned wit satire. D. W. Jefferson wrote The learned wit in Tristram Shandy would be all the less interesting

writer, he is known for his encyclopedic, highly allusive style and learned wit. Critic Colin Marshall wrote “Defending of his prose, Theroux once likened

actually represents a resurgence of a much older, Renaissance tradition of "Learned Wit" – owing a debt to such influences as the Scriblerian approach. Sterne's

sixteenth-century French priest and satirist originally known for his humanist learned wit, whose reputation in the eighteenth century emphasized drinking, atheism

and a graft of dark skin across the upper left of his face. Having learned wit playing with darts as a boy, is a skilled marksman as well as well-trained

Steven Moore, "Alexander Theroux's Darconville's Cat and the Tradition of Learned Wit," Contemporary Literature 27.2 (Summer 1986): 235. The similarities between

1984): 84–85. "Alexander Theroux's Darconville's Cat and the Tradition of Learned Wit." Contemporary Literature 27 (Summer 1986): 233–45. "An Interview with

April 26, 2014 (2014-04-26) Influenced by his abusive father, Christopher learned to hate gay people especially his older gay brother. But, he would found

clean up the mess. Then they confess to Martin what happened. Because they learned their lesson, Martin will pay Hansen for the vacuum. Just as the family