Animal Farm
I saw the Custom Made Theatre Company's production of Animal Farm. In the program appeared this quotation:
You must understand, sir, a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time -- we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. Now, by God's grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it. I hope you will be one of those.(Arthur Miller, The Crucible)
Somehow I feel like this is a quotation worthy of being letterpress-printed on fine paper and framed, in a typeface with serifs. If I were in touch with Willow and Willow had access to a press, I might ask her -- she did the beautiful "quæcumque enim scripta sunt ad nostram doctrinam scripta sunt" which hangs on my wall, and even thought to use the ligature "æ" instead of "ae".
Custom Made chose to set Animal Farm in America instead of England, so that the revolutionary song was "Beasts of America" instead of "Beasts of England", and the later anthem "Animal Farm" ("never through me shalt thou come to harm") was sung to the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner"!
They may have been reminded of the Arthur Miller quotation by a piece Arthur Miller wrote in the New York Times on February 23 in which he quoted his own play.
