“Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive?Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?”

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard - “Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing...” 1

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