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'The Heart of My Mystery': Fear not, and hope not: The new eugenics will leave us unchanged.(genetic engineering will never answer basic questions about human behavior and disease)

National Review

| July 09, 2001 | DALRYMPLE, THEODORE | COPYRIGHT 2001 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are sent by Claudius to discover what ails Hamlet, the prince guesses at once what they are up to:

You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.

But Hamlet will have none of it:

Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

Hamlet does not want to be understood in this instrumental fashion by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, or by anybody else for that matter: as which of us would?

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