It’s National Hat Day1, which gives me the perfect opportunity to share a piece of correspondence from a man who simply refused to write cheerful letters2: George Bernard Shaw. It was July of 1905, and Shaw had recently attended a performance of Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden—a performance ruined …
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