In Competition No. 3000 you were invited to provide an answer, in verse or prose, to a famous literary question of your choosing.
Two admirably pithy responses to Hamlet’s dilemma came courtesy of Carolyn Beckingham:
‘To be, or not to be: that is the question.’
‘If you’re not certain, wait,’ is my suggestion.
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