A small slate slab with a fan-shaped chalk smudge and a violet feather resting on it.

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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead • 1967

Tom Stoppard

By this time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew. That's a thought, isn't it? We'd be right back where we started - improvising.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The possibility of losing every piece of acquired knowledge makes tomorrow resemble a return to the beginning. Improvisation becomes what remains when remembered explanations and methods disappear. The thought treats reliance on what one knows as fragile, while leaving the need to respond to circumstances in place.

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