26 February 2019

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead ~ Tuesday, 26 February 2019

From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (1967). All Rights Reserved.

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GUIL:  It must be indicative of something, besides the redistribution of wealth. (He muses.) List of possible explanations. One: I'm willing it. Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past. (He spins a coin at ROS.)

ROS:  Heads.

p. 682.

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GUIL: See anyone? 

ROS: No. You? 

GUIL: No. (At footlights.) What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. . . . (Pause.) We've had no practice. 

p. 707.



Nine Plays of the Modern Theater. Edited and with an Introduction by Harold Clurman. Copyright 1981 by Grove Press, Inc.