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"I know that Beauty must ail and die,
And will be born again, — but ah, to see
Beauty stiffened, staring up at the sky!
Oh, Autumn! Autumn! — What is the Spring to me?"
Second April (1921)
~Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950)
Books by Edna St. Vincent Millay at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/70
"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"
The Art of Controversy, and Other Posthumous Papers (ed. 1896)
~Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860)
Books by Arthur Schopenhauer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648
#OTD in 1886.
The first performance of William Gillette's American Civil War drama Held by the Enemy is held at the Criterion Theater, Brooklyn, New York.
The play was a major step toward modern theater, in that it abandoned many of the crude devices of 19th-century melodrama and introduced realism into the sets, costumes, props, and sound effects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gillette
William Gillette at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/38243
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
Mr. Dumby, Act III
#OTD in 1892.
Oscar Wilde's comedy Lady Windermere's Fan is premièred at St James's Theatre in London, starring Winifred Emery and Marion Terry.
The play was enormously popular, touring the country for months, but largely trashed by conservative critics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Windermere%27s_Fan
Lady Windermere's Fan at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/790
#OTD in 1907.
Leonid Andreyev 's symbolist drama The Life of Man is premièred at the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre in Saint Petersburg, directed by Vsevolod Meyerkhold. On December 12 it is performed for the first time at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski and Leopold Sulerzhitsky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_Man
Leonid Andreyev at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1871
Now reading:
DTOPIA
(デートピア)
2024
by
安堂ホセ
(あんどう ホセ, Jose Andō)
Winner of the 172nd Akutagawa Prize.
https://www.booksns.com/118686/ “Book club” for reading a book in a day #books This is an idea that I've been playing with for a while but haven't pulled through yet. The idea to have a "one-day-book-club" where you meet up some place and have decided one a book that you're able to finish in a day and at the end of the day you have dinner together and …
https://www.booksns.com/118682/ Simple Questions: February 22, 2025 #books Welcome readers, Have you ever wanted to ask something but you didn't feel like it deserved its own post but it isn't covered by one of our other scheduled posts? Allow us to introduce you to our new Simple Questions thread! Twice a week, every Tuesday and Saturday, a new Simple Questions thread will be …
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"What do you mean by taking my bath?" he yelled at me. "That's some of your damned American impudence!" https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/41252
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Neu im Comenius-Antiquariat 22.2.2025.
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Catching up on December - Roadside Picnic (a birthday present to myself from The Folio Society), #StephenJayGould's Leonardo's Clams from Harmony Books, and the unexpectedly large Scientists Debate #Gaia from @themitpress #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #ScienceFiction #NaturalHistory #Ecology
