Conspiracy of Cartographers

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

The name of this blog came from a very good play/movie called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard. The play/movie centers around Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (played in the movie by Gary Oldman and Tim Roth respectively), two background characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. There are many scenes in the play/movie lifted directly from Hamlet, but the majority of the play focuses on what R&G were doing when they weren't in Shakespeare's masterpiece. It's a fantastic story, and is very funny, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys that type of thing.

Below is my favorite soliloquy from the play/movie. Hope you enjoy it.

Rosencrantz: Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occured to you that you don't go on forever. Must have been shattering. Stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it. It never occured to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squawling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, theres only one direction. And time is its only measure.