Two hundred and seventy-five years ago, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was on his way from Paris to Vincennes when he experienced a powerful revelation. Responding to a literary journal he was reading along the way, he fell to the ground, began to weep, and came to the realization that human beings were essentially good—it was their secular and religious institutions that were wicked and corrupt.
"There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt."
Torvald Helmer, Act I
#OTD in 1879.
The first production of Henrik Ibsen's controversial "modern drama" A Doll's House takes place at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, after publication there on December 4.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll%2…
A Doll's House at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/2542
blog.benjaminpauljohnson.com/2…
Happy Solstice and Glad Yuletide to you and yours!
The FDA restricts a psychoactive mushroom used in some edibles
The Food and Drug Administration has told food manufacturers the psychoactive mushroom Amanita muscaria isn't authorized for food, including edibles, because it doesn't meet safety standards.
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Keno (#ct3003 ) hat sich den Router #OpenWrtOne angeguckt und ist begeistert :) Erstmals hat die #openwrt Community einen eigenen Router gebaut. Neben der Software ist auch die Hardware (natürlich) #opensource ❤️
Weiterlesen bei heise.de:
.Der OpenWrt One verbindet Wi-Fi 6 mit Open-Source-Flexibilität und ist so vielseitig wie ein Schweizer Taschenmesser. Ob als VPN-Schaltzentrale, NAS oder Reiserouter – der 100-Euro-Router bietet Funktionen, die handelsübliche Geräte nicht liefern können. Allerdings sind Know-how und Geduld gefragt, denn die Einrichtung ist nichts für Einsteiger. c’t 3003 zeigt, warum der OpenWrt One trotzdem begeistert.
#OTD in 1892.
Brandon Thomas' farce Charley's Aunt begins a record-breaking London run at the Royalty Theatre (following a pre-London opening at Bury St Edmunds on February 29).
The play was an immediate success, opening to enthusiastic audiences & excellent notices from the press. It ran for a record-breaking 1,466 performances across four years, closing on 19 December 1896.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley%…
Charley's Aunt is available at LibriVox
librivox.org/charleys-aunt-by-…
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Fragarach
in reply to Project Gutenberg • • •Went to watch that last month at the Crucible in Sheffield. So much of it is every bit as relevant today. Not a cheery thought.
#OTD #books #literature #theatre
Project Gutenberg
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