He turned in confusion. There was always confusion in speech. Yet it must be spoken. Whichever way one moved, if one were to move forwards, one must break a way through. And to know, to give utterance, was to break a way through the walls of the prison as the infant in labour strives through the walls of the womb. There is no new movement now, without the breaking through of the old body, deliberately, in knowledge, in the struggle to get out.[BUT]
...One shouldn't talk when one is tired and wretched. One Hamletises, and it seems a lie. -p.161, Women in Love, DH Lawrence
'Hamletises' - ie. Talks to one's self too much overthinking with useless
deliberation thereby neglecting action; something Arnie's Hamlet avoids magnificently, CHECK IT OUT on YOUTUBE by clicking the pic below:
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