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Arthur Miller has died.

TillEulenspiegel

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The playwright AM died today, it would be ( except for lit fans I.E. Death of a Salesman) an idle morbidity except for the the fact that he also wroth " The Crusible"..for those who don't know a thinly veiled attempt to draw parallels between the Salem witch trials and the national evisceration that was the House Un-American activities under the gentle tutelage of Joe McCarthy in the 50s.
The play is salient more now then ever with patriot acts 1 and 2 and the Kafkaesque situation we find our selves in now.

Christ, the American public as Gregory K.

I am so sad we seem to have to learn this lesson ever decade or so.
 
TillEulenspiegel said:
I am so sad we seem to have to learn this lesson ever decade or so.
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The sad part is not that we have to keep re-learning the lesson.

The sad part is that we always have to learn it the hard way.
 
I was going to say something about my fond memories of reading Arthur Miller, then I realized I was thinking about Henry Miller, and those observations would have been inappropriate.
 
In all my years of living in New York, my favorite experience at the theater is seeing "The Crucible," with Liam Neeson. Brilliant, moving play.
 
Truly a sad day. The Crucible is one of the best plays ever written (and more historically accurate than even most historical plays, while still making it relevant to his modern time), and I always somehow felt like Willy Loman was a member of the family.
 
It was also on this day in 1986 that Frank Herbert died. I'm sure he also had some paralels in mind when he wrote Dune.
 
Even Dustin Hoffman couldn't screw up Willie Loman.

The first play I ever acted in I played Arthur Miller.....
 
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