Sunday, May 07, 2006
truer words
From Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard:
PLAYER: ...There's a design at work in all art -- surely you know that? Events must play themselves out to aesthetic, moral and logical conclusions.
GUIL: And what's that, in this case?
PLAYER: It never varies -- we aim at the point where everyone who is marked for death dies.
GUIL: Marked?
PLAYER: Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
GUIL: Who decides?
PLAYER: Decides? It is written.