In a message dated 98-07-13 17:08:59 EDT, mdlerma2@gsbpop.uchicago.edu writes:

<<   Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are essentially interchangeable characters
 without distinct identity.  Even the other characters in Hamlet don't seem
 able to tell them apart (see Act 2, Scene 2).  They always appear together
 and they even die together.  Tom Stoppard made use of this attribute in his
 play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" which examines free will and
 rationality in an irrational world.  This ends today's spam in English
 literature.  
 
                                                                        dml
  >>
          Speaking of Interchanable characters. Did anyone notice that Hiroshe
and Daisuke are always around each other and you can hardly ever tell them
apart. Hence the creation of the brilliant fanfic "Hiroshi and Daisuke are
dead."