@QasimRashid IL RINOCERONTE di #Ionesco: Stanley, un impiegato con il vizio del bere, assiste perplesso alle bizzarre trasformazioni tenendosi a debita distanza. Ma presto le trasformazioni invadono il suo spazio personale, quando il suo vicino e migliore amico John e la sua ragazza Daisy subiscono anche loro la metamorfosi in rinoceronti. ERA FACILE DA PREVEDERE, MOLTO DIFFICILE DA COMBATTERE
One of the books that had profoundly shaped my worldview as a teenager was "#Rhinocéros" by Eugène #Ionesco.
Our protagonist Bérenger watches in horror as people around him – fellow citizens, neighbors, firefighters, colleagues, friends, and even lover – turn into violent rhinoceroses, hellbent on rampant destruction. First slowly, then at an increasingly intense clip.
You can read it here:
• in English: https://archive.org/details/rhinocerosplayin00ione/
• en Français: https://archive.org/details/rhinoceros0000euge/
Every time those #MAGA people start howling menacingly about RINOs (#republicans in name only), they're UNWITTINGLY evoking #Ionesco's play RHINOCEROS, in which normal human beings inexplicably turn into rhinoceroses.
The play, a comedy, satirized the speed with which seemingly moderate people became fascists overnight during the 1930s in Europe.
What we are witnessing in the United States is 40% of the House of Representatives turning into rhinoceroses.
I used to like a lot of things about Ionesco's "The Rhinoceros" but now what I mostly like about it is that it only lasts a couple hours as opposed to endless years of horror and social isolation. #covid #CovidIsNotOver #Ionesco
