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Monday, November 12, 2007


   Proctor and My Tiresome Days
EASY LISTENING: Drown by Three Days Grace
READ UP ON IT: Ironside by Holly Black

We finished The Crucible in survey, and I thought Proctor had some funny/meaningful lines:

Parris: "There is a party in this church. I am not blind; there is a faction and a party."
Proctor: "Against you?"
Putnam: "Against him and all authority!"
Proctor: "Why, then I must find it and join it."

Proctor: "Can you speak one minute without we land in Hell again? I am sick of Hell!"

Proctor: "Make your peace with it! Now Hell and Heaven grapple on our backs, and all our old pretense in ripped away--make your peace! Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. Aye, naked! And the wind, God's icy wind, will blow!"

Proctor: "I say--I say--God is dead!"
Parris: "Hear it! Hear it!"
Proctor: "A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud--God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!"
. . .
Proctor: "You are pulling Heaven down and raising up a whore!"

Proctor: "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"

Proctor: "I can. And there's your first marvel, that I can. You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it!"
Rebecca: "Let you fear nothing! Another judgement waits us all!"
Danforth: "Hang them high over the town! Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption!"
[After a few more words, Proctor is walked out of the jail and hung]

It was a very good play to read (and we're finishing watching it). Much meaning.

Well, not much about my days. Tiresome as they may be, I must continue on with them, keeping one foot in front of the other. I don't want to fall.

How was everyone's weekend?

*hug*
~Okami~

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