Guy Stagg
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Guy Stagg
@GuyStagg
Writer and walker / Books: The World Within (2025), The Crossway (2018) / Words in @FT @spectator @TheTLS / Agent: @RCWlitagency
Katılım Ağustos 2024
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I suspect that the human species - the unique species - is about to be extinguished, but the Library will endure: illuminated, solitary, infinite, perfectly motionless, equipped with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret. - Borges, The Library of Babel
William Whyte@william_whyte
In the Bodleian bookstore
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@CapelLofft This is almost a description of Rose Macaulay's wonderful novel The Towers of Trebizond.
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"Upper-class spinsters were a force to be reckoned with in many local churches in Cappadocia" by around the time of Basil the Great (Peter Brown). I now have a mental image of the Eastern church in the 4th century as late antiquity's answer to a Barbara Pym novel
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Pleased to be back in the @TheTLS reviewing two fascinating books about Sicily by @TimParksauthor and Helena Atlee: the-tls.com/world/travel/t…
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Wilfred Thesiger: 'the stillness of a world that never knew an engine'.
Mustafa@Sufi495
إنتعاش اهوار العراق بعد كثرة الأمطار هذه السنة
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Given T.S. Eliot's animosity towards Bertrand Russell - over Vivienne, over religion - I imagine he was particularly delighted by this last line.
John Barach@John_Barach
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@LRB used to have a Boomer distaste for discussing religion. Pleased that policy has started shifting; this podcast on Pope Leo v Donald Trump goes deep into the intellectual history of the debate: youtube.com/watch?v=A-vk7c…
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Great mini-documentary on the lost Lutyens Liverpool Cathedral: youtube.com/watch?v=_0nuTk…
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Fred Cuming was considered one of the finest landscape painters of his generation. Much of his work celebrates southern English coastlines; the sea and skies of Hastings, Rye or Camber as here, illuminated by dawn, dusk, or glowing moonlight.
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@cusackandrew Even the royal arms are filthy! And concrete, unlike stone, does not age gracefully.
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How easily one can imagine Her Majesty's Ambassador standing at the prow in civil uniform, addressing brief remarks of welcome to the assorted begowned and evening-dressed guests on a late summer's evening in Rome.
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Last gasp of articulated baroque brutalism before British state aesthetics were captured by mediocrity.
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@clarescastle @GuyStagg Thurso High School, designed by his firm 1954-58 still has the faded glory.
Think the Admiralty Building (since demolished to make way for a Lidls) also was his).
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@cusackandrew It's less ugly from this angle ... the angle that members of the public don't see.
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@GuyStagg Afraid I take the opposite view! Love this and think Spence was just phoning it in with Coventry.
Andrew Cusack@cusackandrew
Last gasp of articulated baroque brutalism before British state aesthetics were captured by mediocrity.
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@DrFrancisYoung Vague inspiration from an Italian Palazzo. Otherwise utterly out of place.
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I feel like the British Embassy in Moscow should definitely look like this, but maybe not the British Embassy in Rome…
Guy Stagg@GuyStagg
Basil Spence's Coventry Cathedral is a beautiful Modernist sacred space, but his Brutalist British embassy in Rome is a nightmare.
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