That's a terrible mess RSS FEED

     ROS : heads.

             (again)

     ROS : heads.

             (again)

     ROS : heads.

             (again)

     ROS : heads.

             (again)

     GUIL: Yes, one must think of the future.

     ROS: It's the normal thing.

     GUIL: To have one. One is, after all, having it all the time... now... and now... and now....

     ROS: It could go on forever. Well,  not forever, I suppose. 

             (Pause.)

             Do you ever think of yourself as actually dead, lying in a box with a lid on it?

     GUIL: No.

     ROS: 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 a 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. Not that I'd like to sleep in a box, mind you, not without any air -  

             you'd wake up dead, for a start and then where would you be? Apart from inside a box. That's the bit I don't like, frankly. 

             That's why I don't talk of it....

            (GUIL stirs restlessly, pulling his cloak round him.)

             Because you'd be helpless, wouldn't you? Stuffed in a box like that, I mean you'd  be in there forever. Even taking into account the                fact that you're dead, really ... ask yourself, if I asked you straight off  - I'm going to stuff you in this box now, would you rather be

             alive or dead?

             Naturally, you'd prefer to be alive. because Life in a box is better than no life at all. I expect. You'd have a chance at least. 

             You could lie there  thinking - well, at  least I'm not dead! In a minute someone's going to bang on the lid and tell me to come out. 

            (Banging on the floor with his fists.)  "Hey you, whats your name! Come out of there!"

     GUIL : You don't have to flog it to death!

            (Pause.)

     ROS : I wouldn't  think about it, if I were you. You'd only get depressed. 

            (Pause.) 

             Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?