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Today we’re in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4.
Act 1, Scene 2 gave us the court saying, “Get over it.”
Act 1, Scene 3 gave us family advice that’s really control.
Now Scene 4 takes us back to the battlements — the cold night air — where the play asks a different question:

When truth appears in an unsettling form…
Do you follow it?

GEORGE:
Master Shakespeare, we’ve moved from court politics and family warnings back to the night watch. Why return to the battlements now?

SHAKESPEARE:
Because the day has done its work.
Now the night may speak.

GEORGE:
Let me paraphrase that for listeners:

Daytime Denmark is where people control the story.
Nighttime Denmark is where the story refuses to be controlled.

And Hamlet arrives here already loaded.
He’s grieving. He’s disgusted. He’s isolated.
And now he’s standing in a place where the living expect the dead.

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