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A man breaking his journey between one place and  another at a third place of no name, character, population  or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds, or  to be less extreme, a choice of persuasions to put it down to fancy; until - “My God,” says the second man, “I must  be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn.” At which point, a dimension is added that makes the experience as alarming as it will ever be. A third witness, you understand, adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner, and a fourth thinner still, and the more witnesses there are, the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality, the name we give to the common experience… “Look, look” recites the crowd. “A horse with an arrow in its forehead! It must have been mistaken for a deer.” (Guildenstern)

Tom Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

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We’ve travelled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.

- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard (via crowsandallies)

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Words, words. They’re all we have to go on.

- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard (via crowsandallies)

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A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.

Tom Stoppard, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead”, p. 49 (via aliceinslaughterhouse)

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R&G - Rosencrantz Appreciation Post

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We only know what we’re told, and that’s little enough. And for all we know it isn’t even true.

- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard (via crowsandallies)

[thomastherhymer]

It’s what the actors do best. They have to exploit whatever talent is given to them, and their talent is dying. They can die heroically, comically, ironically, slowly, suddenly, disgustingly, charmingly, or from a great height. My own talent is more general. I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not in fact contain; but occasionally, from out of this matter, there escapes a thin beam of light that, seen at the right angle, can crack the shell of mortality.

- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard (via crowsandallies)

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R&G - Guildenstern Appreciation Post

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Hall and Oates.

ACT II, SCENE II

Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, HALL, OATES, and Attendants.

KING CLAUDIUS

Welcome, gentlemen; our urgent need did provoke Our hasty sending.

ROSENCRANTZ

Both your majesties Might, by the sovereign power you have of us, Put your dread pleasures more into command Than to entreaty.

GUILDENSTERN

But we four obey, And here give up ourselves to be commanded.

HALL

You’ve got to know What my head overlooks The senses will show to my heart; When it’s watching for lies You can’t escape my Private Eyes.

OATES (silent)

(long pause)

KING CLAUDIUS (clears throat)

That will be all.

QUEEN GERTRUDE

Ay, amen!

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no  … it was light all the time, you see, and we opened our eyes very, very slowly.

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R&G - Denmark’s a madhouse

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“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occured to you that you don’t go on forever. Must have been shattering. Stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it. It never occured to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squawling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, theres only one direction. And time is its only measure.” - Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. set design, set building, art direction. all collaboration with jayne meyncke. 2011.