labellementeuse | in which that English degree was wasted on me and I really lower the tone of a famous novel

I am SO tempted to offer to write "If on a winter's night a traveller" for Yuletide. Except, well, I haven't finished it yet (well: I have most of the final third to go but I've read the last two chapters: it's just that I keep getting bogged down in the Russian novels he keeps putting in the middle. Then, of course, in order that I over-identify with Reader, he keeps cutting them off just as I get into them, which is very clever and all but heeeeey also kind of mean.) But mostly what's putting me off is: what in the world would someone request? (I thought maybe someone wanted that hot threesome from the one in the middle with the rebellion, two male soldiers, and that woman. But no, the only characters given are You, Reader, and Other Reader, by whom I guess they mean Ludmilla?)

Per my Dreamwidth icon for this post, next year I'm so requesting archy & mehitabel. LJ denizens, my icon is the last five lines of CAPITALS AT LAST.