John Carlos Baez on Nostr: When I was a kid I read Ionescu's play Rhinoceros, where the inhabitants of a small ...
When I was a kid I read Ionescu's play Rhinoceros, where the inhabitants of a small French town turn one by one into a herd wild, rampaging rhinoceroses. I was told the play was "absurdist", and read it as such. But living in the United States now, I see it's completely realistic.
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