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by lucb1e 4755 days ago
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Related: Voilá! In view a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicareously 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 valerous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to venquish these venal and virulent vermin venguarding vice and vouchsafing the violent, vicious and foracious violation of volition! The only virdict is vengance. A vendetta, held as votive not in vain but for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and virtuous. Yet verily this vichessoice of verbiage veers most verbose. So let me simply add that it is my very great honor to meet you, and you may call me, V. // Only know it from hearing, I probably misspelled half the words.

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Did you memorize that? If so: wow, you were quite close. The correct text from ‘V for Vendetta’:

“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 bygone 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! 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. 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.”

If I'm entirely honest, I cheated two words. After seeing "This visage" I remembered the rest again. But yes, mostly by heart. Loved that part of the movie (and audiobook) :P
The V comics are full of stuff like that.