dear_mun | Canon is Technically 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead', but Shakespeare is close enough.

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Canon is Technically 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead', but Shakespeare is close enough.

Yes but can you sustain it? That is really the question - and the answer to which all depends upon.

For a certain definition of 'all'. And a certain definition of 'depends', too, I should imagine.

It would be easier to manage with some backup, that's all I'm saying. I won't even much complain that you seem a bit... adrift, if you catch my meaning, as to where you even intend to place me.

So long as it's not on any boats!

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I'd imagine with the right dictionary, anything can mean just about anything when you put it like that.

So what you're saying is, depending on what reference we reference, no one really has any idea what they're saying at all?

I'm saying that's what you're saying, unless you mean something entirely different, in which case that's not what you're saying at all, which means clearly I can't be saying that.

What you're saying...
*he pauses, and shifts his feet as if he needs to physically approach this from another angle, before he begins again*
You're saying you haven't got any clue what I'm saying, because - if I have this right - that I haven't got any either?

Edited 2012-12-23 05:03 (UTC)

[He holds up a hand, about to answer, then stops, confused.]

What?

I HAVEN'T-
[Catching himself shouting, he abruptly changes tone to something more civil:]
I haven't got any idea:

Oh!

That's too bad.

Unless it's good. It seems to me that ideas... notions, wild inspirations... frankly they're downright dangerous.

Edited 2012-12-23 05:14 (UTC)

It seems like that to you?

Well take into consideration where ideas have gotten us, exactly. Or rather, where they might have gotten us.

...Where are we anyway?

I was about to ask you that.

...it's not very pretty, is it?

Dismal.

But that hardly tells us where we are - it could be any number of dismal places, couldn't it?

Could be any one of them.

Could be England.

Do you think we made it to England?

Oh yes, I suppose it's most likely England, with our luck.

Except here we are, with no letter and no Hamlet, and no ideas.

I didn't like that letter anyway.

Either of those letters.

It's not a matter of liking or disliking, it's a matter of - of - duty, I suppose. Though now that we seem to be free of it, I'm not sure I like that at all.

What I want to know is -

[He seems to have lost his train of thought, and for a moment he struggles, before the light dawns again and he realizes that he actually does have a notion of something that he wants, and that's an unfamiliar sensation that's altogether new.]

What I want to know is what we're supposed to do now!

[He is completely at a loss, looking back pretty blankly.]

I don't know.

[He looks around, as if expecting something to happen.

Usually something does happen at these parts.]

No one's told me to do anything yet.

No one's told either of us.

[Usually the scenery bursts apart and a plethora of royals sweeps them up in fate, or the players appear to tie them in knots, but it seems today they are not so (un)lucky?

He crosses his arms and waits, eyeing their surroundings suspiciously until some time has passed.]

Could it possibly be that we are no longer required?

[He tries to think about this, but he's not really coming up with anything.

But the lack of confusing interruptions is disturbing him.]

Well.

We were dead.

[A thought comes to him, albeit a bit slowly.]

Maybe this is heaven?

[He's not sure he likes this possibility.]

We - we can't have been dead, and then have ceased to be so. Unless we're un-dead.

[A brief examination ascertains that both are breathing and that Rosencrantz flinches when he is pinched hard on the arm.]

There, see? Perhaps we only thought we were dead.

[He doesn't much seem to like that notion either, that this is heaven.]

Well if it is, it seems somewhat lacking in divinity. And answers!

Ow!

[HE DIDN'T LIKE THAT. He rubs his arm and looks annoyed.]

I don't recall us ever getting many answers before.

Well of course not. But it seems to me that...

It seems to me that heaven, being so full of divinity, there should be all sorts of answers, shouldn't there? Big answers - isn't that part of the definition?

If we're elevated, so to speak, we should know the answer to why we're here.

Then maybe it isn't heaven.

Maybe it's the other way around.

[He looks around.]

Though it doesn't seem nearly hot enough.

It doesn't, but it seems more likely doesn't it?

Perhaps we've been the other place all along, in which case this is just another aspect in our torment.

Eternal torment of unanswered questions and lack of purpose?

[A pause.]

Sounds about right.

My mun wants me to tell you that she's frequently not been on boats. For some strange reason this makes her really happy.

Un-being makes her happy? Well I suppose it might, if being has been particularly miserable.

Unless you mean she hasn't been on boats, in which case I can hardly blame her. I've begun to develop a certain aversion myself...

I think she's happy about the fact that you're here, and not so much about the boats. And being not on boats.

So she's happy that I'm here, and that we're not on a boat. I'm not entirely convinced this isn't a boat, but given any telltale signs of rocking or planking, I suppose it mustn't be. So, given that we aren't on a boat - which isn't a given, more of an assumption, but taking it as a given - she's free to be as happy or unhappy as she pleases.

Of course if we are in fact on a boat, or a ship I suppose or even a dinghy, then those sorts of decisions are out of our hands entirely and she's only as happy as it's possible to allow for, in such confines of forward momentum.

But taking the boat out of the equation, and then we get... then we get...

we get a negative boat, that's what we get.

...of course.

[Muse is nonplussed. Mun is delighted :)]

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Canon is Technically 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead', but Shakespeare is close enough.

Oh. My. God.

<3 aaa you exist.

YOU exist! What a wonderful world we live in!

Serrendipitous, I would say.

Re: Serrendipitous, I would say.

Re: Serrendipitous, I would say.

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I think I love you a little.

:D I am having such a good time with this thread omg

Totally yes! So happy. :)

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