The mirror cracked from side to side.

[uberreiniger]

What if someone placed you in a room and told you you had to keep doing the same thing and you could never leave just to see if you'd believe them?

What if you did and nothing happened? What kind of threat would you be to them? Because if they're doing it to you then they're doing it to someone else in some other place.

I think the Lady of Shalott faked her death. I think she had to.

Comments

[persephone-20.livejournal.com]

I think so too.

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

I don't know the reference.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

That's why I shouldn't blog at 4am.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

What a confusing question. (And without context.)

I have no idea who "The Lady Of Shalott" is.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Figure from Arthurian legend, made famous by a Tennyson poem. Listening to a really good song about her has gotten me obsessed with the story.

[ravenbrenna.livejournal.com]

That poem always made me sad. :(

LOST anyone?

[zombiecowboy.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm in the middle of season 3 of Lost... and it sounds like the code scenario to me.

If someone tells you you have to do something, that's okay the first few times. But eventually, you have to not do what they say, or you go mad.

She chose free will over living, because life isn't worth living without it.

Even the angels learned it, eventually.

Re: LOST anyone?

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

The similarity between the two scenarios has not been lost on me. What makes it fascinating to me is that she didn't know who had put the curse on her or why. I'm curious about what that person would do if the story had a different ending and their bluff was called.

For all we know the Lady's castle was a DHARMA station. It was on an island after all...

Re: LOST anyone?

[persephone-20.livejournal.com]

When reading that part of the poem, actually, and given Tennyson admitting his Lady was alike to the Elaine archetype, I actually interpreted it as a self imposed curse.

A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.

If she choose to stay, to look on Camelot and, say, Lancelot, as did Elaine, then the curse is on her.

Re: LOST anyone?

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

She was inspired by Elaine, but that's different than her being Elaine herself. Then again, out of all Arthurian characters I just don't like Elaine very much. But I do like the Lady. It seems though that if it were self-imposed she would know what the outcome of it would be.

Re: LOST anyone?

[persephone-20.livejournal.com]

As opposed to coming to learn it. That's true, I suppose. But if the curse was a metaphor for her choosing to stay, then the outcome as well could, conceivably, also be a metaphor.

Of course, I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here and tossing around ideas :)

[persephone-20.livejournal.com]

You know, your post from the other day was still in my head when I went into my Vic Fiction class this afternoon and has inspired me to write at least 50% of my assessment this year on Tennyson's Lady of Shallot.

For all my love of Emilie, though, and even my love of Waterhouse's beautiful painting, I'd never read the Tennyson poem before today.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I could help with furthering your education :D

I'm not a big poetry guy, but that poem is amazing.

[persephone-20.livejournal.com]

I'm not big with poetry either, but the poetry I like I absolutely love.

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

Wow, that would make an incredible story.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

It has burned its way into my mind and will not let go.