Inktober 2020 – Day Twenty-Four – Dig
I hope I don’t come off as too highbrow when I say the first thing I thought of when I saw today’s prompt, dig, was the gravedigger scene from Hamlet. Specifically, I had Billy Crystal’s performance, from the Kenneth Branagh version stuck in my head.
If I want to be truly honest with myself, this was the second thing I thought of. However, a picture of prisoners digging their own grave was too dark. Frankly, I’m tired of people using my pictures to psychoanalyze me.
On a side note, this is the second picture I found myself liking the flipped version better after I scanned it.
GRAVEDIGGER
Mine, sir.
HAMLET
I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in’t.
Gravedigger
You lie out on’t, sir, and therefore it is not yours: for my part, I do not lie in’t, and yet it is mine. HAMLET
‘Thou dost lie in’t, to be in’t and say it is thine: ’tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.
GRAVEDIGGER
Tis a quick lie, sir; ’twill away gain, from me to you.