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“I do not know, my lord, what I should think.”
“I’ll teach you. Think yourself a baby.”
In a way I believe that Polonius can be manifested in words and definitions just as much as he can be a human being. Becoming the slave to “I am” is just as dangerous and soul-depleting as any manipulative authority figures. We lose ourselves trying to describe who we are rather than being who we are, to the point that we almost become caricatures of these words and what they supposedly represent. All the world is a stage…That may be a different play, but draining the pond doesn’t always have to be so tragic.
“So, are you?”
“I am many things.”