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Rosencrantz

Actor! What do you know about death?

The mechanics of cheap melodrama! 

Guildenstern

Cheap melodrama.

Rosencrantz

You can't do death!

Actor 

On the contrary,

it's what we do best.

We have to exploit

whatever talent is given to us

and our talent is for dying.



We  can die heroically, comically, 

ironically, sadly, suddenly, slowly

disgustingly, charmingly 

or from a great height.

Audiences know what to expect,

and that is all they are 

prepared to believe in.



- Tom Stoppard (1966)