Four o'clock: sketches and studies
Illustrations for the short story "Four o'Clock" by Price Day. This novel, published for the
first time in 1958 in "Alfred Hitchcock Mistery Magazine", gave ispiration to the homonymous episode of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" (S.03, Ep.29).
From Rod Serling opening narration:
"That's Oliver Crangle, he's rather arbitrarily chosen four o'clock as is personal Götterdämmerung, and we are about to watch the metamorphosis of a twisted fanatic, poisoned by the gangrene of prejudice, to the status of an avenging angel, upright and omniscient, dedicated and fearsome. Whatever your clocks say, it's Four o'clock, and wherever you are, it happens to be The Twilight Zone."
Teshis Project, Master Ars in Fabula (2018/2019).
Mr.Crangle
The crowd
- Then, how to do it, the metod? Mark them on te forehead, or turn them all one color, say purple? But then they would simply be able to recognize each other the more readily, and and to band together in their wickedness -
the Crowd
- All the uncaught murderers an the tyrants and the proud and sinful, all the bullies and the wrongdoers and the blackmailers and the nicotine fiends and trasgressors". His eyes blazed with omnipotence.
"All of them every one"-
the giants
-When at last he hit upon the idea of a change in size, what came to him first was the thought of doubling the height and bulk alla the bad people. That would make them inefficient. They couldn't handle delicate scientific instrument or typewriters or adding machines or telephone dials. In time they would expire from bigness, like the dinosaurs in the article in the sunday paper. -
The shrinking man.
-Half-size people, it was true, might be able to manipulate some of the machines. They could also be dangerous. But it would take them a long time to develop tools and weapons to their scale, and think how ridiculous they would be, meanwhile, with their clothes twice too big and their hats falling down over their ears.-
Mr.Crangle's hands
