The Lottery

Annals of the Homestarmy

Tuesday, September 9. 2008

Posted by Ancient of Days in Oddities

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The news about Mr. Tom Brady has caused at least one NFL reporter to refer to that classic short story The Lottery - and I found more than one oddity in the awesome wikipedia entry about that story - however, by far my favorite has to be the following quote by the author:

In the years since then, during which the story has been anthologized, dramatized, televised, and even—in one completely mystifying transformation—made into a ballet...

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I don't see why there was such a controversy. I really enjoyed the story the first time I read it, in High School, because I expected a very different ending. Knowing a little about ancient harvest sacrifices, I thought it was a pretty cool juxtaposition of a brutal ritual and modern life. It was like, "what if we still believed in appeasing pagan gods?"

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