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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern mashup

Sucked from the Wikiquote page for Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and re-bejumbled:

Guildenstern: Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you haven’t the faintest idea how to spell the word – “wife” – or “house” – because when you write it down, you just can’t remember ever having seen those letters in that order before …?

Rosencrantz: Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half didn’t mean anything at all.

Guildenstern: The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody. Demolish.

Rosencrantz: Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?

The Player: Life is a gamble, at terrible odds – if it was a bet, you wouldn’t take it.

Guildenstern: Words. Words. They’re all we have to go on.

The Player: I congratulate you on the unambiguity of your situation.

Guildenstern: There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it.

No pen, no ink, no nothin’…

“No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.”

- James Joyce (1882–1941) from a Dec. 7, 1906, letter to his brother, written from Rome in a state of disillusion. Letters of James Joyce, vol. 2 (1966).

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