The Word is the Doubt
Here is the word, the doubt.
Not to be or not to be. That was Hamlet, but it was a literary deception written by someone who has proven himself to be a genius of such deceptions.
Still, Shakespeare knew nothing of DNA, but he knew himself well, or rather, his human nature.
His art was able to give birth to his characters without being born as people.
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