In his twenties, John Bridgens most identified with Hamlet. The strangely aging Prince of Denmark-Bridgens was quite sure that the boy Hamlet had magically aged over a few theatrical weeks to a man who was, at the very least, in his thirties by Act V-had been suspended between thought and deed, between motive and action, frozen by a consciousness so astute and unrelenting that it made him think about everything, even thought itself.
( Dan Simmons )
[ The Terror ]
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