What, you've never read Hamlet? R&G have more than two lines.

5/10/2006 6:56:33 AM

I've read Hamlet at least thirty times.

I know R&G have more than two lines, but tarty said six pages on two lines.

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" is a fairly long play, and it's based solely upon the meager amount of lines the interchangeable idiots have in the real deal. Since R&GaD is essentially a commentary, a similar proportion of writing based upon two lines of Hamlet isn't unreasonable.

[Edited on May 10, 2006 at 6:59 AM. Reason : goddamn i can't type]

5/10/2006 6:59:11 AM

The average student at NCSU does not have the genius of Tom Stoppard, though.

5/10/2006 7:00:27 AM

Neither do I, but I can fake it like nobody's business.

5/10/2006 7:01:02 AM

But the play consists of them doing... nothing, really, but discussing how absurd everything is. I don't know that Stoppard used the material to create a whole lot of something from nothing, just made more nothing out of nothing.

And yeah, what she said.

5/10/2006 7:02:02 AM

I can't decide if I should just email this stuff to him when I'm done or take it to him in person. I guess I'm kind of paranoid that it won't go through correctly.

The last question of our exam is really vague and I'm having a hard time even getting started.

5/10/2006 7:05:39 AM

Yeah, no kidding. I picked three and my essay probably sucks, but I went with #2. Something about tragedic beginnings.

5/10/2006 7:08:14 AM

^^^ Ah, but that's the point.

That's bungled for sure, but I was not about to dish a lame-ass Shakespeare gag.

R&G are beyond absurd. That's why they're funny. Stoppard's play is an homage to Shakespeare's awareness. Granted, if he wrote about them academically (YAWN) it'd be quite a bit shorter, but the point would remain.

Now is an excellent time to point out that while Michael Almereyda made an interesting choice in his film by having most of R&G's correspondence with Claudius and Gertrude occur by telephone, he made them sympathetically interchangeable from Gertrude's perspective instead of hilariously bland.

Forgive me if I'm distracting you from writing that actually counts for something more than nerd points.

[Edited on May 10, 2006 at 7:09 AM. Reason : arrows(honda)convention]

5/10/2006 7:09:14 AM

wow, suprised yall didnt pick C-1, that seemed a bit easier

5/10/2006 7:09:42 AM

My exam is different since I'm in 17th Century lit. It was between the movement from writing about the external to the internal or the "dissociation of sensibility" which is a phrase that makes no sense to me still.

5/10/2006 7:12:06 AM

^^ Imagery is for wusses.

I'm barely coherent at this point, I just keep typing things... Elizabeth I, James IV-->James I, Hamlet, succession, religion, Claudius, death blah blah blah blah blah

[Edited on May 10, 2006 at 7:16 AM. Reason : .]

5/10/2006 7:14:36 AM

I just picked up one of my more basic ENG requirements this semester, and since it was a GER there were lots of BUS majors and stuff in it...one of my new friends in there who does environmental shit described the entire English department as a "revelatory bullshit contest." Pretty fucking perceptive, miss.

5/10/2006 7:16:43 AM

what time do grocery stores start selling beer again,

im going to need a couple [dozen]

5/10/2006 7:22:06 AM

i know i should do that to be nice, but i really don't want to !!! what to do

5/10/2006 7:22:25 AM

After this shit, I'm going to Tompkins, turning this in and going to sleep for the rest of the day.

5/10/2006 7:23:15 AM

mmm breakfast

5/10/2006 7:27:14 AM

that my head is killing me

5/10/2006 7:28:06 AM

I started babbling about literature being the documentation of the human experience. I need sleep.

5/10/2006 7:39:49 AM

bibliography.

w00t.

[Edited on May 10, 2006 at 7:41 AM. Reason : btw, 1604 was a pretty shitty year]

5/10/2006 7:40:50 AM

Almost finished packing...!

5/10/2006 7:42:53 AM

M.M= craziest 6hours of my life

5/10/2006 7:57:34 AM

hopefully today will fly by

5/10/2006 8:24:22 AM

that's not the one i want

5/10/2006 8:24:51 AM

on the way to turn this jive in and be done with college.

i hope.

5/10/2006 8:38:18 AM

i wanna go back to sleep

5/10/2006 8:42:10 AM

work is oh so boring

5/10/2006 8:43:00 AM

^^^Nice work sir.

I think I'm on page four now... If this gets to six, I'll be happy enough.

[Edited on May 10, 2006 at 8:43 AM. Reason : .]

5/10/2006 8:43:08 AM

Dr. Wall wasn't in his office (or I have a very weak knock) when I took mine by, which sucks because I really need to see him about my summer research.

5/10/2006 9:16:16 AM

same here. i dropped it off at 915. i guess ill call to verify that he got it

5/10/2006 9:49:00 AM

i'm leavin on a jet plane

dont know when i'll be back again

5/10/2006 9:52:28 AM

I emailed, but I guess maybe I should call since he seems happy to always ignore my emails.

5/10/2006 9:53:28 AM

ok well he didnt answer his phone either.

great.

5/10/2006 10:27:57 AM

Well he wasn't there when I went either- the underside of the door is getting kinda jammed.

5/10/2006 10:55:06 AM

yawn

5/10/2006 10:56:30 AM

i swear to god my genius roommate can't grasp the concept of a fan in the bathroom... everytime I come upstairs, it smells like shit because he never uses the damn fan

5/10/2006 12:26:25 PM

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5/10/2006 12:35:54 PM

that motherfucker is not a genius!

5/10/2006 12:41:01 PM

that motherfucker is not a genius!

5/10/2006 12:42:49 PM

fuckin right

5/10/2006 12:44:06 PM

you know, we really should bring poker night back

$5 buy-in, none of that penny poker bullshit

and smokey isnt invited

5/10/2006 12:47:48 PM

I need to stop buying media.

5/10/2006 12:48:22 PM

hahahahahahahaha he lives here, thats gonna be a hard one to pull

5/10/2006 12:48:30 PM

well we could do it somewhere else, maybe my place

or we can wait til he's asleep or at work

that motherfucker is not a genius!

5/10/2006 12:53:05 PM

Quaker Oats are so good with cinnamon them.

5/10/2006 12:54:41 PM

11 days....man i'm on a roll!

5/10/2006 1:09:04 PM

hope this good weather keeps

5/10/2006 1:10:47 PM

set em up

5/10/2006 1:11:44 PM