It has been a long time since I posted something worthwhile. As it happens that I am preparing for GRE general test and have to amass a vocabulary of excessive magnitude to be able to serve the purpose well. It is a consequence of this that I came across a flush of words of which I had only heard of and never bothered to decipher them. It was, thus, incumbent on me to imbibe their meanings and contexts in which they appear. To facilitate this agenda, I took a step to collect all previously unheard words and decode them which I happen to come-by in movies, videos, novels and blogs. I could vaguely recall a movie with tons of verbiage and upon googling realised that it was none other than everyone's favourite "V for Vendetta". I am alluding to a dialogue between V and Evey. Lets have a look at the dialogue and its interpretation in light of my knowledge.
V: [Evey pulls out her mace] I can assure you I mean you no harm.
Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey Hammond: Oh. Right.
V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.
V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
[[ Although I might appear as a comical man dictating swords, by the circumstances in which I happen to be, I am cast both as a villain and a victim. The mask, as it may look like, is not a display of my arrogance but is a symbol of the now vanished democracy. I have resolved to eliminate all of these corrupt men leading lives of evil, who abuse their freedom and commit immoral and detestable actions]]
[carves "V" into poster on wall]
V: The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
[[The only verdict is vengeance; an action to relieve these corrupt men, not just for the sake of it, but for the value and honesty of those oppressed by the system who have done no wrong]].
V: [giggles]
V: Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
[[Indeed, this soup of unnecessarily complicated words deters even the learned ones but nevertheless it's my ... call me V]]
Evey Hammond: Are you, like, a crazy person?
V: I am quite sure they will say so. But to whom, might I ask, am I speaking?
Evey Hammond: I'm Evey.
