Fandom:Nero Wolfe series Characters: Archie Goodwin Rating: G Word count: 152
I don't know of many people that have what they call wisdom. Nero Wolfe is certainly the most intelligent man I know, but what with his eccentricities in daily life I can only think of a couple of occasions when I might have called him really wise. Not that I'm claiming any kind of profound wisdom or anything for myself, either. I have more than once been called a wise guy, but that's not really the sort of thing I'm going for, here. Wolfe would call that an idiomatic use: it doesn't count. He disapproves of that sort of thing, words picking up meanings that they didn't have around the year eighteen hundred or so. Wise guy and wisecrack he'll tolerate, but if I turned it into an adverb and started talking about cracking wise, he'd probably threaten to fire me. He threatens me enough as it is for actually cracking wise.
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Characters: Archie Goodwin
Rating: G
Word count: 152
I don't know of many people that have what they call wisdom. Nero Wolfe is certainly the most intelligent man I know, but what with his eccentricities in daily life I can only think of a couple of occasions when I might have called him really wise. Not that I'm claiming any kind of profound wisdom or anything for myself, either. I have more than once been called a wise guy, but that's not really the sort of thing I'm going for, here. Wolfe would call that an idiomatic use: it doesn't count. He disapproves of that sort of thing, words picking up meanings that they didn't have around the year eighteen hundred or so. Wise guy and wisecrack he'll tolerate, but if I turned it into an adverb and started talking about cracking wise, he'd probably threaten to fire me. He threatens me enough as it is for actually cracking wise.