What excellent prose. While enjoying this, one was an reminded of another master of English who was not a native speaker, Joseph Conrad: https://en.m.wikipedia.

What excellent prose. While enjoying this, one was an reminded of another master of English who was not a native speaker, Joseph Conrad: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad The other thing that comes to mind is how English relates to its cousin, German. The overlap remains, if you squint.