Poll: Year End

[thefourthvine]

I've seen lots of people doing year-end wrap-ups, but, well, I don't really have a lot to wrap up. You all know how my year went. Instead, I thought I'd ask you: how was your year? Are you happy, baby? (I'm also curious because a lot of people seem to have had absolutely terrible 2007s; I'm wondering if it was just the Cursed Year or what.)

And the question at the end is a very important one. Best Beloved and I were talking about that story, and we totally disagreed about what happened. I'd like to be proved right by majority rule, please. Voting is key.

[Poll #1114196]

Comments

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is that one time when I'm going to say that there is no answer to that question about the story. The whole point of the story is to forbid us knowing; we can think about it, say how we would have written the story, but the story is what it is and the answer to that question isn't in it.

(Given the story as it is, I probably would have ended it with the tiger, FWIW.)

[destina.livejournal.com]

What she said. Hence I didn't vote on that question because it's a theoretical exercise only.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

See, I know that you're actually right - there is no answer. But I remember everyone having extreme opinions about it when we read the story in middle school. (And my opinion has totally not changed since then.) And even though Best Beloved and I were all, "Yup, it's totally unknowable, that's the point," neither of us could resist adding, "(but secretly I believe it's X)."

So I'm hoping we're not the only people with kneejerk opinions that were formed in prepubescence that remain solidly with us today. (And I'm totally going with a middle school approach: figure out who is right by determining what everyone else thinks! Actually, no. I'm just settling a bet.)

We did agree, though, that The Lady, or the Tiger would make the worst Yuletide request ever.

[siegeofangels.livejournal.com]

We actually had to write our own endings to that story in . . . sixth grade? Tiger all the way, baby.

Perhaps I should blame that assignment for my subsequent fanfictional leanings.

[bardicsidhe.livejournal.com]

I had to do that too! In... sixth grade. In my ending, the princess planned to send her man to the tiger, but the guys in charge of setting everything up found out and had the tiger and the lady switch doors, so she didn't get what she wanted anyway.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I AM SO JEALOUS. Because we had to do a debate and defend our answers and it was awful. I would much rather have written some fan fiction.

Now I'm sulking retroactively at my teacher.

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

See, I'm not sure I ever actually read it for school, though I remember it being in our reader. I'm sure we never had to do the argue-or-write-about-how-it-ends exercise. So I... kind of didn't care, as I recall. There was a distinct lack of unicorns or spaceships, so, you know, eh.