At 09:44 PM 7/12/98 -0500, John Rasmussen wrote:

At 07:00 PM 7/12/98 -0700, you wrote:

David Lerman wrote:

Their full names are Yuka Rosencrantz and Sayuri Guildenstern, or maybe
Yuka Guildenstern and Sayuri Rosencrantz.  Yuka is the brunette and Sayuri
is the other brunette.  Hope this helps.

Which one was the brunette again?
...Just kidding...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are names from Hamlet, written by Shakespeare,
and probably not to be taken seriously as names for japanese characters.

Yeah, I know I sound pompous.  Deal with it.

Sigh...


  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