[This note has more aggressive calligraphy and is on better
stationary in a nice, genteel envelope. It is, perhaps, slightly
shirty.]
Arisugawa;
If I do choose to get one of these phones, will you do me the
kindness of either instructing me in the basics or directing me to someone
who can? A device I haven't the ability to operate is quite a bit worse
than no device at all, and as you can see, this form of communication
functions for us quite well, griping aside.
[The envelope is scented. There is a wax seal. The cardstock of the note has embossed borders.]
My Dear Miss Arisugawa;
The time for thought in correspondence is the virtue of the form over conversation. The written word remains. Vital and urgent letters are worth doing the thing proper, however long it takes. In contrast, any delay in trivial communication is, by necessity, trivial.
I'll consider the purchase carefully, and, should I lay out Otto for it, am glad to accept your gracious offer. Thank you, it's really most decent of you. Perhaps in exchange I could offer lessons in etiquette?
Under the watch of the Lion, I have the Honour to remain;
His Majesty Peter the Magnificent, First of His Name, et cetera et cetera.
P.S.- Brevity may be the soul of wit, but precision is the flesh, and rhetoric the raiment thereof. A lady such as yourself doesn't want her wit half-starved, nor cold and tatty come winter. Cheers!
[Juri didn't need lessons in etiquette. She just knew when it was needed and when it didn't. And this correspondence was very much not one requiring etiquette.
She knew he was doing it just to be a jerk, like her choice to purposefully use her sticky notes. A part of her had to respect that. And maybe Peter won this little exchange, because Juri just didn't have the energy with the drain Mordred was putting on her to bother coming up with anything better.
So Peter got one more sticky note with a single word written on it in black marker.]
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2015-05-31 04:56 am (UTC)A,
I wasn't asking for lessons.
-P
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Date: 2015-05-31 05:04 am (UTC)That doesn't change the fact that you should get a cell phone.
A
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Date: 2015-05-31 05:08 am (UTC)[This note has more aggressive calligraphy and is on better stationary in a nice, genteel envelope. It is, perhaps, slightly shirty.]
Arisugawa;
If I do choose to get one of these phones, will you do me the kindness of either instructing me in the basics or directing me to someone who can? A device I haven't the ability to operate is quite a bit worse than no device at all, and as you can see, this form of communication functions for us quite well, griping aside.
Sincerely,
Pevensie
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Date: 2015-05-31 05:12 am (UTC)Obviously, I will.
And if you had a cell phone, this entire conversation would've taken maybe five minutes instead of half the day as it has.
[She's not even signing this one.]
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Date: 2015-05-31 05:25 am (UTC)My Dear Miss Arisugawa;
The time for thought in correspondence is the virtue of the form over conversation. The written word remains. Vital and urgent letters are worth doing the thing proper, however long it takes. In contrast, any delay in trivial communication is, by necessity, trivial.
I'll consider the purchase carefully, and, should I lay out Otto for it, am glad to accept your gracious offer. Thank you, it's really most decent of you. Perhaps in exchange I could offer lessons in etiquette?
Under the watch of the Lion,
I have the Honour to remain;
His Majesty Peter the Magnificent, First of His Name, et cetera et cetera.
P.S.- Brevity may be the soul of wit, but precision is the flesh, and rhetoric the raiment thereof. A lady such as yourself doesn't want her wit half-starved, nor cold and tatty come winter. Cheers!
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Date: 2015-05-31 05:34 am (UTC)She knew he was doing it just to be a jerk, like her choice to purposefully use her sticky notes. A part of her had to respect that. And maybe Peter won this little exchange, because Juri just didn't have the energy with the drain Mordred was putting on her to bother coming up with anything better.
So Peter got one more sticky note with a single word written on it in black marker.]
Asshole.
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Date: 2015-05-31 05:36 am (UTC)[Yeah, he's getting that framed.]
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Date: 2015-05-31 05:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-05-31 05:52 am (UTC)[Once he has it, it will be hilarious to see him trying to use the network with it, so just say the word when it happens.]
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Date: 2015-05-31 05:57 am (UTC)