Consider
Einstein. Don't you have to be a little "mad" in order to be a visionary, to see
beyond the "real" world? That said, I don't know that Hamlet falls into this
category. The stress of grief, and of knowledge unshared, the inability to come to a decision -
these are the issues that plague him and cause such fretfulness of
feeling.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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