Monday, October 15, 2012

Hamlet Sans

I heard something on the radio, not quite sure what it was, but it made me want to make this.

It is the famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from Shakespeare's Hamlet, but with a bit of change.

I have deleted all verbs and adjectives. Also, starting with the first line, I deleted every third line (so the 1st, 4th, 7th, etc.)

I think it's interesting how, although we may not even have ever heard the whole soliloquy, we can insert the correct verb.

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Whether nobler in the mind
The slings and arrows of fortune
And by them--
No more--and by a sleep
That flesh is heir to. A consummation
Devoutly--

For in that sleep of death what dreams may
When off this coil,
That calamity of so life.

For who the whips and scorns of time,
The pangs of love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
When he himself might his quietus
With a bodkin?

Who fardels,
But that the dread of something after death,
The country, from whose bourn
And rather those ills
Than to others that not of?

And thus the hue of resolution
Sicklied o'er with the cast of thought,
With this regard their currents awry
And the name of action. -- You now,
All my sins.

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