July 25: Glenn Murcutt ,Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti was a German language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria, and later a British citizen. He was a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist and non-fiction writer. Wikipedia

Born: July 25, 1905, Ruse, Bulgaria

Died: August 14, 1994, Zürich, Switzerland

Education: University of Vienna

Parents: Mathilde Canetti, Jacques Elias Canetti

Quotes

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

From 2005: Ritchie Robertson on the complex personality and works of Elias Canetti (born on this day, 1905).

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From the archives: The great hater

Canetti is among the most original, and the most variously talented, of German-language authors of the twentieth century.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. Wikipedia

Born: October 21, 1772, Ottery St Mary, United Kingdom

Died: July 25, 1834, Highgate, United Kingdom

Books: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge, Kubla Khan, MORE

Movies: The Ancient Mariner, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, The Albatross, Christabel, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Quotes

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

#OnThisDay in 1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge died of heart failure at 3 The Grove, Highgate. In the spring of 1816 Coleridge had found permanent harbor in the household of Dr James Gillman, a surgeon living at Highgate. Coleridge was most well-known for his poems, Kubla Khan and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."

He loved pseudo-scientific jargon, drew heavily on German idealist philosophy and could be obscure for page upon page. Even sympathetic contemporaries found him frustrating. But they realised that the obscurity would suddenly be illuminated by dazzling and provoking ideas

Much of Coleridge's writing has worn badly

The poet was born on October 21st 1772

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Interview: Glenn Murcutt Talking Heads

In this interview, between Australian Architect Glenn Murcutt and Peter Thompson for ABC TV's Talking Heads program, Murcutt reveals his three rules in life: simplicity, simplicity, and "of course, simplicity". He speaks openly about his upbringing and childhood, about his inspirations and how he has grown and developed his passions as an architect.

Glenn Marcus Murcutt AO is a British-born Australian architect and winner of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize and the 2009 AIA Gold Medal. Wikipedia

Bowali Visitor Information Centre, Kakadu National Park, in collaboration with Troppo Architects

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Happy birthday Glenn Murcutt! Find out more about Australia's only Pritzker Architecture Prize winner here:

Spotlight: Glenn Murcutt

Winner of the 2002 Pritzker Prize, Glenn Murcutt (born 25 July 1936) has designed some of Australia's most innovative and environmentally sensitive buildings.

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