Discontinuous functional detected by vanishing sequence tails ($f(v_N)=1,\Vert v_N{\Vert }_2\to 0$)

If a linear functional on a normed vector space has $f(v_N)=1$ for a sequence tending to zero in norm, it is discontinuous and unbounded. An explicit example is the algebraic span in ${\ell }^2$ of the coordinate vectors and $w=(2^{-n}{)}_{n\ge 1}$. Define $f(w)=1$ and $f(e_n)=0$. The tails $v_N=w-{\sum }_{n=1}^N{2}^{-n}{e}_n$ have norm $2^{-N}/\sqrt{3}$ but image one. Thus the functional vanishes on the dense finite-support subspace while being nonzero elsewhere.