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During a typically angst-filled episode in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet (2000), the protagonist (Ethan Hawke) watches a video of a Buddhist monk expounding a philosophy of interrelatedness:
We have this word to be. But what 1 propose is … a word to interbe … Because it is not possible to be alone. You need other beings in order to be. Not only do you need father, mother, but also uncle, brother, sister, society … sunshine, river, air, trees, birds, elephants, and … it is impossible to be by yourself, alone. You have to interbe with everyone and everything else. And, therefore, to be means to interbe.
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Burnett, M.T. (2007). Spirituality/Meaning/Shakespeare. In: Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800809_7
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