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Just had the iconic “if you can’t play the four what makes you think you can play me?” bit

“He doesn’t need infinite intelligence to know the wind is blowing north-northwest or to tell a pigeon from a power tool” YES THESE ARE THE REFERENCES I’M HERE FOR!

Other ones so far have included “That way, they can take the cold cuts from Dad’s funeral and put them in those pinwheel sandwich things for the wedding reception” and Ophelia’s mother’s strawberry scarf (Othello reference I think)

This book has already made me tear up once so I know it’s going to absolutely break my heart. The writing’s kind of weird in places and seeing Modern Hamlet is quite startling because I’m used to hearing him make impassioned philosophical speeches in Shakespearean English not modern, but the effect is intriguing, not bad. Enjoying characters from other plays, and fun callbacks to actual lines from Hamlet!