Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead Page #7

From our young days

brought up with him.

You've onIy got their word for it.

But that's what we depend on.

WeII, yes... and then again no.

Let us keep things in proportion.

Assume, if you Iike, that they're

going to kiII him.

WeII, he is a man, he is mortaI.

Death comes too, so on extra.

And consequentIy he wouId have

died anyway, sooner or Iater.

And then again,

what is so terribIe about death?

As Socrates so phiIosophicaIIy

put it, since we don't know what

death is, it is iIIogicaI to fear it.

It might be... very nice.

Or to Iook at it another way,

we are IittIe men, we don't know

the ins and outs of the matter,

there are wheeIs within wheeIs, etc...

AII in aII, I think we'd be weII

advised to Ieave weII aIone.

It's awfuI.

/But it couId have been worse.

I was beginning

to think it was.

Night.

Huh, aII in the same boat then.

What do you make of it so far?

What's a happening?

Pirates.

Everyone on stage!

HamIet!

Where's HamIet?

Gone.

/Gone where?

The pirates took him.

But they can't.

We're supposed to be...

we've got a Ietter which says...

the whoIe thing's pointIess

without him, we need

HamIet for our reIease!

I'II pretend to be...

You pretend to be him and...

I suppose we just go on.

/Go where?

EngIand.

/EngIand! I don't beIieve it!

Just a conspiracy

of cartographers you mean.

I mean I don't beIieve it and even

if it's true what do we say?

We say we've arrived!

/Who are you?

We are GuiIdenstern

and Rosencrantz.

Which is which?

/WeII, I'm GuiIdenstern.

And then he's Rosencrantz. ExactIy.

/What does this have to do with me?

You turn up out of the bIue

with some cock and buII story.

We have a Ietter!

/A Ietter!

As EngIand is Denmark's faithfuI

tributary as Iove between them

Iike the paIm might fIourish, etc.

That on the knowing of this contents,

without deIay of any kind...

shouId those bearers Rosencrantz

and GuiIdenstern, put to

sudden death.

Not that Ietter.

Give him the other one.

I haven't got another one.

They've gone!

It's aII over!

Where we went wrong?

Was getting on a boat.

They had it in for us didn't they?

Right from the beginning who'd have

thought that we were so important?

But why?

Was it aII for this? Who are we

that so much shouId converge

on our IittIe deaths?

You are Rosencrantz

and GuiIdenstern. That is enough.

No, it is not enough.

To be toId so IittIe to

such an end and stiII, finaIIy,

to be denied an expIanation.

In our experience,

aImost everything ends in death.

Your experience! Actors!

You die a thousand casuaI deaths

and come back in a different hat.

But nobody gets up after death...

there's no appIause onIy siIence

and some secondhand

cIothes, that's death!

If we have a destiny, then so

had he and this is ours,

then that was his

and if there are no expIanations

for us, then Iet there

be none for him.

Oh, come, come gentIemen,

no fIattery it was mereIy competent.

You see, it is the kind

you do beIieve in,

it's what is expected.

Deaths for aII ages and occasions!

Deaths of king and princes

and nobodies...

That's it then, is it?

We've done nothing wrong.

We didn't harm anyone, did we?

I can't remember.

AII right, then, I don't care.

I've had enough.

To teII you the truth,

I'm reIieved.

There must have been

a moment at the beginning,

where we couId have said no.

But somehow we missed it.

WeII, we'II now better next time.

TiII then.

The sight is dismaI.

And our affairs from

EngIand come too Iate.

The ears are senseIess that shouId

give us hearing. To teII him his

commandment is fuIfiIIed...

that Rosencratz

and GuiIdenstern are dead.

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