Status Updates From Incident at Vichy

Nothing says sitting on the train to work like tucking into a lovely depressing Miller play

MONCEAU: There are laws and every government enforces its laws.
LEDUC: Every government does not have laws condemning people because of their race.
MONCEAU: The Russians condemn the middle class, the English have condemned the Indians and Africans... the French, the Italians . . . every nation has condemned somebody because of his race, including the Americans and what they do to Negroes.

None of us is alone. We’re members of history.

3.5

They can make death seductive, it's their great sin

Miller please stop! I can't quote the whole play in Goodreads!

-Can people with respect for art go about hunting Jews, make a prison out of Europe Pushing themselves forward as a race of policemen and brutes is that possible for artistic people?

+ I would like to agre with you but I have to say that the German audiences... I've played there no audience is as sensitive to the smallest nuance of a performance, they sit in a theatre with respect like a church.

Whenever people start to work hard watch out they are about to kill someone

There are no persons anymore. Don’t you see that? There will never be persons again. What do I care if you love me?

You didn’t advertise your name in those forbidden books in order to find a reason to leave Paris and save yourself. No, it was in order to get yourself caught. Your heart is conquered territory.

The less you exist the more important it is to
make a clear impression. I can see them
discussing it as a kind of. ...truthfulness. After all,
what is self-restraint, what hypocrisy! If you
despise Jews the most honest thing is to burn
them up and the fact that is costs money and
uses up trains and personnel this only guarantees the integrity, the purity, the existence of their feelings.

Right now it might be the best way to hold on to oneself. It's only that ordinarily one tries to experience life, to be in spirit where one's body is. For some of us it's difficult to shift gears and go into reverse. But that's not a problem for you
BAYARD: You think a man can ever be himself in this society? When millions go hungry and a few live like kings, and whole races are slaves to the stock market