I was half asleep, when J. sent an SMS telling me Arthur Miller died. It’s not as if I cried for his death(I cried when Shafiq-ur-Rehman died)but I was so sad. Okay, I’ve been told I should forget about Miller, but gosh, I LOVE his plays,and it’s a loss for the literary world at least.
We’d been doing ‘The Crucible’ just the last term!And what with the witch-hunt of Muslims around the world, ‘The Crucible’ really struck a chord, at any rate it’s such an amazing play.
And I am disappointed to note, that no one at GS even bothered to ‘report’ his death,(if they have I failed to see it, in which case I willingly take back my reproof)whereas, everyone seems so full of sorrow when some bollywood actor dies.Hmm…he was just such a wonderful playwright!
I have a far better tribute in my mind,like convincing my eternal unwilling classmates to perform one of his plays!If not the entire play,at least some parts of it.
Obviously,it's so much more simple to just copy/paste some biography from the net, but so much less exciting!And, how many would actually read it?It would be more of a joy to me, if more people were introduced to his plays.Waisay tou, I've failed to get my own sister to read it, she's not into reading plays.
P.S: We'd such a laugh over the fact that his 'latest' GF was like 34 years old or something:-) That was a couple of months back, and we even wondered what could have compelled a 30 something to fall for such an old man, whereas, all of us were sure we understood why an octogenarian would be in for a woman so young.
I'm very saddened by this, because he was one of the few writers who actually made me want to write as a kid (William Faulkner, Langston Hughes being a few others)
So for me it was Johnny Carson, Ossie Davis and Arthur Miller all dying within 2 weeks of each other. :(