Jakob (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} heelgrasper) wrote,@ 2005-02-26 23:38:00 |
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Hamlet, scene II
Hamlet
Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true.
Let me question more in particular: what have you,
my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune,
that she sends you to prison hither?
Guildenstern
Prison, my lord!
Hamlet
Denmark's a prison.
Rosencrantz
Then is the world one.
Hamlet
A goodly one; in which there are many confines,
wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.
Rosencrantz
We think not so, my lord.
Hamlet
Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me
it is a prison.
Denmark as a prison amuses me. And a remark like there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so seems oddly postmodern.
Hamlet
Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true.
Let me question more in particular: what have you,
my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune,
that she sends you to prison hither?
Guildenstern
Prison, my lord!
Hamlet
Denmark's a prison.
Rosencrantz
Then is the world one.
Hamlet
A goodly one; in which there are many confines,
wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.
Rosencrantz
We think not so, my lord.
Hamlet
Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me
it is a prison.
Denmark as a prison amuses me. And a remark like there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so seems oddly postmodern.
