THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Utopias seem to be much more achievable than we formerly believed them to be. Now we find ourselves presented with a completely different question: How can we avoid their definitive realization? … Utopias are achievable. Life marches toward utopias. And perhaps a new century is beginning, a century in which intellectuals and the cultivated class will dream of means to avoid utopias and to return to a non-utopian society, less ‘perfect’ and more free.”

— Nikolai Berdyaevx

BIRTHDAYS:

1582 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer. Valli Profonde, and “La Dafne” Apollo’s first scene, and “Dormi Amor” from “Flora”, and “Per la gloriosissima Vergine”

1923 Joseph Heller, American novelist (Catch-22).

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