Hamlet Doesn't Know

2 weeks ago by @philkmills

Hamlet Doesn't Know

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Liner Notes

Here's an #acoustic #filk song inspired, at least a little, by an @edwinb song. Also by a demo program I got when I bought my first home computer (Apple ][).

If you don't want to deal with the weird philosophy, just imagine that Shakespeare's Horatio has taken LSD. 😀

Lyrics

Hamlet doesn’t know that he was written by a monkey.
Yet one more soliloquy, his energy is drained.
It isn’t déjà vu, but a lingering suspicion,
In a universe unbounded, we’ll do this all again.

Sometimes, when I speak my part, I understand ‘forever’
And stumble on a word I’ve said an endless count of times.
For every instance on the stage, exact in reproduction,
Infinite editions have some small change in one line.

If, in our reality,
Recursion is a fact,
I wonder who is scribbling
The scenes the monkeys act.

Then I start to question
That “endless monkeys” stuff.
If time is never-ending
One monkey is enough

I’ve been charged with telling the true story of the carnage
But find I have a message that’s more fundamental still.
I speak “Lest more mischance on plots and errors, happens”
When, next, an ink-stained monkey dips a newly-sharpened quill.

If, in our reality,
Recursion is a fact,
I wonder who is scribbling
The scenes the monkeys act.

Then I start to question
That “endless monkeys” stuff.
If time is never-ending
One monkey is enough

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