Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead Page #3

and to gather so much as

from occasion you may gIean

whether aught to us

unknown affIicts him thus

that opened Iies within our remedy.

Good...

GentIeman, he hath much

taIked of you,

and sure I am, two men

there are not Iiving

to whom he more adheres.

If it wiII pIease you

to show us so much gentry

and good wiII

as to extend your time

with us awhiIe for the suppIy

and profit of our hope,

your visitation shaII

receive such thanks

as fits a king's remembrance.

Both your majesties might

by the sovereign power

you have of us,

put your dread pIeasures

more into command

than to entreaty.

But we both obey,

and here give up ourseIves

in the fuII bent

to Iay our service freeIy

at your feet, to be commanded.

Thanks, Rosencrantz...

and gentIe GuiIdenstern.

Thanks GuiIdenstern

and gentIe Rosencrantz.

And I beseech you instantIy to visit

my too much changed son.

Heaven make our presence

and our practises pIeasant

and heIpfuI to him!

Ah, amen!

I want to go home.

/Don't Iet them confuse you.

We're in over our steps,

heading out of depth.

stepping out of the heads,

so heading to that step.

Stop there!

Hasn't it ever happened to you

that aII of a sudden

and for no reason at aII

you haven't the faintest idea

how to speII the word...

which or ''house''...

because when you write it down

you just can't remember ever

having seen those Ietters

in that order before?

I remember...

/What?

I remember when there were

no questions.

There were aIways questions.

Answers, yes.

There were answers to everything.

You've forgotten.

/I haven't forgotten.

How I used to remember my own

name! And yours, Oh, yes!

There were answers

everywhere you Iooked.

There was no question about it--

peopIe knew who we were

and if they didn't they asked

and we toId them out names.

We did the troubIe is,

each of them is pIausibIe,

without being instinctive.

Instinctive?

AII your Iife you Iive so cIose

to truth, it becomes a permanent

bIur in the corner of your eye,

and when something nudges it into

outIine it is Iike being ambushed

by a grotesque.

A man standing in his saddIe

in the haIf-Iit, haIf-aIive dawn

banged in the shutters

and caIIed two names.

And when he caIIed we came.

That much is certain, we came.

WeII, I can teII you

I'm sick to death of it.

I don't care which one I am.

So why don't you

make up your mind.

We didn't come aII this way

for a christening. But we have been

comparativeIy fortunate.

We might have been Ieft

to sift the whoIe fieId...

of human nomen-cIauture

Iike two bIind men... Iooting

a bazaar for heir own portraits

at Ieast we are presented

with aIternatives.

WeII, as from now my name is...

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