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June 9, 2008 at 22:54:37

Headlined on 6/9/08:
Hamlet 5:1

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                                   HAMLET
            Why?

                                   GRAVEDIGGER
            Because Englishmen are as mad as he is to begin with.

                                   HAMLET
            How did he go mad?

                                   GRAVEDIGGER
            Very strangely, they say.

                                   HAMLET
            How, "strangely?"

                                   GRAVEDIGGER
            By losing his wits.

                                   HAMLET
            On what ground?

                                   GRAVEDIGGER
            Why, here in Denmark.

                                   (Beat.)

                                   HAMLET
            How long will a man lie in the earth before he rots?

                                   GRAVEDIGGER
            If he isn't rotten before he dies? So many corpses today
            barely keep together before they're underground. But
            normally they last about eight or nine years--unless he's a
            tanner.

                                   HAMLET
            Why a tanner longer than others?

                                   GRAVEDIGGER
            Because his hide has been so tanned by his trade that he'll
            keep the water out longer; it's water that decays the body
            mostly. (Picking up another skull.) Now here's a skull
            that's been in the earth for twenty-three years.

                                   HAMLET
            Whose was it?

                                   GRAVEDIGGER
            A trickster's. Who do think it?

                                   HAMLET
            I don't know.

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