Thursday, December 3, 2009

Spider Solitaire as an Existentialist Metaphor

I've gone weeks without solving four-suit Spider Solitaire.  I'm beginning to feel a bit like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's play, where the two characters are flipping a coin, but can only ever toss a "heads".  Being fictional bit-part characters from Hamlet they are fated to play their parts and then die.  The coin is a metaphor for pre-destination.

If I can't get out Spider Solitaire - what am I fated for?  And if I'm a fictional character whose story am I playing out? 

Hell - if I am a fictional character, I vote the writer gets the sack!  lol

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