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25hourenergy t1_itcwo9h wrote

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow

of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath

borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how

abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at

it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know

not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your

gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,

that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one

now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let

her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must

come; make her laugh at that.

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berry90 t1_itcprnq wrote

I remember going to a museum when I was younger where they had a skeleton on display. They had a little video display with an actor portraying the skeleton.

It was interesting because it seems that the person died from a head injury. It could have been an assault, it could have been a fall. We'll never know. Just another human story lost to time, kind of. We have the body, and we can make assumptions from the burial, but we'll never really know.

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