Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Important

Ros: What was the last thing I said before we wandered off?

Guil: When was that?

Ros: I can't remember.

Guil: What a shambles! We're just not getting anywhere.

Ros: Not even England. I don't believe in it anyway.

Guil: What?

Ros: England.

Guil: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, you mean?

Ros: I mean I don't believe it! I have no image. I try to picture us arriving, a little harbor perhaps... roads... inhabitants to point the way... horses on the road... riding for a day or a fortnight and then a palace and the English king... That would be the logical kind of thing... But my mind remains a blank. No. We're slipping off the map.


Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
, Tom Stoppard (1967)

No comments: