Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance, at least. You could lie there thinking, "Well. At least I'm not dead."
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Rosencrantz We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
Rosencrantz Be happy – if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on.
Rosencrantz To sum up: your father, whom you love, dies, you are his heir, you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother popped onto his throne and into his sheets, thereby offending both legal and natural practice. Now why exactly are you behaving in this extraordinary manner?
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