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I loved your reply and greatly agree with you. Hamlet lived at
the brink of suicide. I have a mentally disabled sister and worry
at times over my own sanity. I have attempted suicide, there is a
point after such an attempt that reason fails, you feel you can always
go back and die, noone after that can make you live this life. you
are free for a while of any fear of death. To conquer death you only
have to die, as christ put it. Could Shakespeare have been originally
that intuitive of that? His character was suicidal could he have
been there himself, at some point. Could this all be viewed as the story
of a person on the edge, without any fear of death, living on his instincts
I am afraid his actions are over thought by observers. The line in fiction
was stated by Mark Twain, fiction has to make sense and reallity does'nt
It is the timeless nature of this that we can all read into it.
Posted by kim on April 13, 1997 at 16:00:22
In Reply to "basic humanity" posted by Mel on April 11, 1997 at 06:29:17
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