ROSENCRANTZ:
… Do you ever think of yourself as
actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?
GUILDENSTERN:
No.
ROSENCRANTZ:
Nor do I, really… It's silly to be depressed by it.
I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box,
one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact
that one is dead… which should make all the
difference… shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know
you were in a box, would you? It would be just like
being asleep in a box.
— Tom Stoppard
See also last Sunday's sermon (Feb. 9) and
Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside (Feb. 10).