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Monday, September 5, 2011

Bathroom Monologue: The Infinite Jest

HAMLET

Let me see.

Takes the skull

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio:
a fellow of infinite jest...

SKULL

Lower jaw rattles

Hey Hammy, why did the chicken cross the road?

HAMLET

Not now. I'm soliloquizing.

SKULL

Sorry, Hammy. You know me.
Infinite jest. If I didn't jest now,
it'd be like the play was poorly written or something.

HAMLET

There’s no way I’m iambing about being borne
on your back a thousand times now.

Drops the skull, enters next melodrama

SKULL
Hey Horatio. Knock-knock?

HORATIO

Retires
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5 comments:

  1. AidanFSeptember 5, 2011 at 9:40 AM

    I like the humor of the skull trying to tell jokes and Hamlet not putting up with them. Nice gerunding of iambing.

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  2. liminalfictionSeptember 5, 2011 at 11:06 AM

    A lot shorter than the last Infinite Jest I read, thank goodness.

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  3. Cat RussellSeptember 5, 2011 at 9:06 PM

    Alas, poor Hammy! lol

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  4. Helen A. HowellSeptember 6, 2011 at 2:14 AM

    I could become very fond that that skull!

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  5. Ruchira MandalSeptember 6, 2011 at 6:09 AM

    Poor Yorrik- no one left to listen to him? I was kinda hoping to hear Hamlet's views on the chicken crossing the street...:p

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