Golden Compass meme

[thedarkages]

Yes, I succumbed. And do you know what that Myers-Briggs/Animal Farm mashup thinks I need? A chimpanzee. A female chimpanzee named Kyana. I have never been so certain that I do not need a chimpanzee companion in my life. I would have been happier with a gefilte fish.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

The trick is to let your friends fiddle with it and give you a more accurate dæmon. Besides, hey, i ain't seen anyone else get a chimp.

[2wanda.livejournal.com]

You're supposed to post it, so we can add our input. This changes the companion. You never know, you might have ended up with that gefilte fish. ;)

[2wanda.livejournal.com]

Haha, yeah, what ronebofh said.

[yesenixan.livejournal.com]

...?... I thought you didn't care for "that Pullman crap," as I once heard you put it.

[thedarkages]

I don't care for it. I was just interested in the meme as another one of those countless quizzes that appear here; I have no interest in integrating myself into the story.

[ryba-kit.livejournal.com]

I also dislike Pullman, but think that a chimpanzee would actually be pretty impressive in his universe. I was unhappy when I got a moth.
Gefilte at least has some kind of dignity , lent to it by tradition, and chimpanzees have understanding of metaphor (though not social learning, as Tomasello informs us - and he should know).

One day there must come a fantasy writer whose protagonist will have Gefilte for a daemon. Will it be the same gefilte, I wonder, consumed but miraculously remade every day like the pig Slíðrugtanni of Norse mythology? Or will the fish stay the same, slightly smelly but faithful unto the end? No doubt, the arch-villain's daemon will be Lard with Garlic.