Make things yourself instead of factory produced. E.g. bake your own bread (it’s not hard) and you’ll save the plastic packaging and the waste produced in the industrial baking process. Make your own ice tea from loose tea leaves instead of buying ice tea in plastic bottles. Buy plastic free products such as shampoo/soap bars. See if there are farms near you that directly sell essentials like milk,produce, eggs etc. Buy local products and seasonal fruits and vegetables. Look into natural cleaning, e.g. using bakimg soda for some things instead of buying a chemical solution in a plastic bottle. Buy second hand when possible. Clothing, cutlery and plates, decorations etc., a lot of things can be found in thrift stores.

Radio was portable pretty early on. Also, the first TV stations didn’t play music. TV was for stories, Radio for music.

Swallowing with yoghurt or pudding also helps.

Goethe’s book “The sorrows of young Werther” caused several suicides of people who emulated the protagonist.

The communicator in Star Trek was an important inspiration for the development of the cell phone and the creators stated that one of their motifs for developing a hand-held telephone was to have something like the Star Trek communicator.

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My favorite role of his was Ahab in the 1998 Moby Dick.

I like the poems of Eugen Roth, but I don’t know if there are any good English translations. For short stories I can recommend Umberto Eco. “How To Travel With A Salmon: and Other Essays” is my favorite.