User Profile
Add Friend
Add Note
Track User
Send Message
Send V-Gift
official_which's Journal
Created on 2004-08-25 21:03:30 (#4323565), last updated 2006-01-03
619 comments received, 336 comments posted
Basic Account [Gift]
88 Journal Entries, 1 Tag, 0 Memories, 0 Virtual Gifts, 3 Userpics
Basic Info| Name: | faintly macabre |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 01-15 |
| Location: | Florida, United States |
Bio"Well," said the old lady, just as a rat scurried across her foot. "I am the king's great-aunt. For years and years, I was in charge of choosing which words were to be used for all occasions, which ones to say and which ones not to say, which ones to write and which ones not to write. As you can well imagine, with all the thousands to choose from, it was a most important and responsible job. I was given the title of 'Official Which,' which made me very proud and happy.
"At first I did my best to make sure that only the most proper and fitting words were used. Everything was said clearly and simply and no words were wasted. I had signs posted all over the palace and market place which said:
BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT.
"But power corrupts, and soon I grew miserly and chose fewer and fewer words, trying to keep as many as possible for myself. I had new signs posted which said:
AN ILL-CHOSEN WORD IS THE FOOL'S MESSENGER.
"Soon sales began to fall off in the market. The people were afraid to buy as many words as before, and hard times came to the kingdom. But still I grew more and more miserly. Soon there were so few words chosen that hardly anything could be said, and even casual conversation became difficult. Again I had new signs posted, which said:
SPEAK FITLY OR BE SILENT WISELY.
"And finally I had even these replaced by ones which read simply:
SILENCE IS GOLDEN.
"All talk stopped. No words were sold, the market place closed down, and the people grew poor and disconsolate. When the king saw what had happened, he became furious and had me cast into this dungeon where you see me now, an older and wiser woman.
"That was all many years ago," she continued; "but they never appointed a new Which, and that explains why today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many."
-
Short attention span, very little common sense, and prone to crushes on fictional characters. Likes shiny things, skirts that don't resemble those of a nun, potentially deadly objects, sushi. Pet peeves include willful ignorance or stupidity, loud breathing, and being cold while trying to sleep.
"At first I did my best to make sure that only the most proper and fitting words were used. Everything was said clearly and simply and no words were wasted. I had signs posted all over the palace and market place which said:
BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT.
"But power corrupts, and soon I grew miserly and chose fewer and fewer words, trying to keep as many as possible for myself. I had new signs posted which said:
AN ILL-CHOSEN WORD IS THE FOOL'S MESSENGER.
"Soon sales began to fall off in the market. The people were afraid to buy as many words as before, and hard times came to the kingdom. But still I grew more and more miserly. Soon there were so few words chosen that hardly anything could be said, and even casual conversation became difficult. Again I had new signs posted, which said:
SPEAK FITLY OR BE SILENT WISELY.
"And finally I had even these replaced by ones which read simply:
SILENCE IS GOLDEN.
"All talk stopped. No words were sold, the market place closed down, and the people grew poor and disconsolate. When the king saw what had happened, he became furious and had me cast into this dungeon where you see me now, an older and wiser woman.
"That was all many years ago," she continued; "but they never appointed a new Which, and that explains why today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many."
-
Short attention span, very little common sense, and prone to crushes on fictional characters. Likes shiny things, skirts that don't resemble those of a nun, potentially deadly objects, sushi. Pet peeves include willful ignorance or stupidity, loud breathing, and being cold while trying to sleep.
ConnectInterests (37):
alkaline trio, anglophilia, anime, assassins, ben folds, books, bookstores, cackling, cowboys, discworld, franz ferdinand, good omens, guster, harry potter, hats, history, japan, kenjitsu, lawrence of arabia, lord of the rings, monty python, mooching, music, neil gaiman, photography, pretentious hipster music, sandman, shiny things, snail mail, south dakota, swords, terry pratchett, the phantom tollbooth, the postal service, travel, weaponry, writing
External Services:
 | official_which@livejournal.com | |
 | Requiescat 6 |  |
Schools:
University School of Nova Southeastern University - Fort Lauderdale, FL
Friends [View Entries] Friends (11):
Communities [View Entries] Watching (6):
Feeds [View Entries] Watching (5):
