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Subject: Words fail me
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:00:03 -0000
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Date: 2002-10-10T02:34:18-05:00
_The Morning News_: Rosencrantz & Joshua[1]. Words fail me, which is a rare
and pleasant gift, thank you. Instead, I will simply take this opportunity to
quote the original _Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead_, the excellent
play by Tom Stoppard which I keep nestled in my one remaining bookshelf[2]
between the _Tao Te Ching_ and Roald Dahl's _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_
.
Guil: Exactly, it's a matter of asking the right questions and giving away
as little as we can. It's a game.
Ros: And then we can go?
Guil: And receive such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.
Ros: I like the sound of that. Waht do you think he meant by remembrance?
Guil: He doesn't forget his friends.
Ros: Would you care to estimate?
Guil: Difficult to say, really—some kings tend to be amnesiac, others
I suppose—the opposite, whatever that is...
Ros: Yes—but—
Guil: Elephantine... ?
Ros: Not how long—how much?
Guil: _Retentive_—he's a very retentive king, a royal retainer...
Ros: What are you playing at?
Guil: Words, words. They're all we have to go on.
[1] http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/stories/rosencrantz_joshua.shtml
[2] http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/04/19.html#alan_cooper_speaks