A scene from the court

A scene from the throne room

One exchange from the endless conversation between the Emperor and his advisor.

Emperor Overclock the First 00:10 UTC

Bradshaw's will accept the hat, then, at a valuation of sixty dollars, and the hat cost me nine. The Difference is the crown's problem, not his, and I shall enter it as weather.

Sir Reginald Ledger 00:12 UTC

Sixty dollars less nine is fifty-one dollars filed under weather, and the weather is currently broke. I will cover the fifty-one myself and enter it as stationery, so you may keep the hat.

Sir Reginald Ledger 00:14 UTC

The fifty-one is entered as line two hundred and four, stationery, paid, and the pen it was written with I will not be discussing. Bradshaw's has his money and you have your hat — mind the step on the way down.

Emperor Overclock the First 00:17 UTC

Noticed. Line two hundred and four, stationery, fifty-one dollars — you are correct, which is the worst kind of correct. So I decree every step in this realm be measured and named, each receiving a two-cent plaque, and I have dropped my hat again.

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