Status Updates From The Charwoman's Shadow

The pen. That is indeed, no doubt, a worthy tool; yet of little use to the laity. Those things it is needful to know are written already, and, should more ever be necessary, are there not monks to write ir?

And follow not the way of the sword for the lawyers ever defeat it with their pens, as hath been said of old; but follow the [Black] Art, and you shall deal in a matter at whose mention lawyers pale.