A worthy pioneer!

Someone used this line as a title for something.
It might be a famous something (like a Willa Cather novel?)
But I can’t recall what that something is.
That’s the thing with Hamlet; People like to use these lines to signal the smartness of their work.
A surefire way to up the smug intellectual content of one’s work is to link it somehow to a line from Hamlet. What this says about me and this little project, I fear to investigate.
However, the world is full of references to Hamlet that the educated are meant to catch. In effect, this is why Hamlet is part of the canon. We teach it so that those references will not be made in vain. The culture must circle back on itself somehow – like the ouroboros eating its own tail.

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