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Even the question-and-answer form ("What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course") is reminiscent of the untrustworthy soliloquies delivered by Hamlet. The soliloquist asks himself the big questions while alone on stage ("To be or not to be?"), and tries on different answers. Yes, Shakespeare's Richard III announces his plans for murder to the audience. But the better model here is Hamlet, who says both that he is mad and that he is mad north by northwest, meaning that he may not be mad after all. Ambiguity is the order of the day, and we accept the ambiguity in part because we know that talking to yourself isn't like talking to other people.
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