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  1. Pinned Tweet
    6 Jul 2017

    It is time for a thread on traditional urbanism, or town planning 13th century style. I will dispel some myths of modern dis-urbanism.

  2. 12 hours ago

    So far reading Siegfried Sassoon's semi-autobiographical "Memoirs of a fox-hunting man" has been balm for a harried soul. Even his account of shopping on Oxford Street, some 110 years ago, reminds me of how dismal our modern consumerism has become.

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    24 Dec 2017
  4. 14 hours ago

    Anthony M. Ludovici: January 8, 1882–April 3, 1971.

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    16 Nov 2016

    Anthony M. Ludovici on the moral failure of the press versus the ignorant which in this case means each and everyone of us. HT:

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    1 May 2016

    "All the world over the notion of the gentleman has appeared in some form as a national ideal.” — Anthony Ludovici

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    13 Nov 2016

    “To the strong there is no such thing as free will; for free will implies an alternative, and the strong man has no alternative." — Ludovici

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    13 Dec 2015

    "wherever Western civilisation has spread the sound are sacrificed in order to preserve the unsound.” – A. Ludovici

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    29 May 2017

    “‘Thou shalt not sacrifice the greater to the less; but, if need be, the less to the greater.’” — Anthony Ludovici

  10. 16 hours ago

    Running a mold, casting a pilaster, creating ashlar, etc. Best in stone, of course, but rarely done after the 15th century. Even teenagers can handle this with a bit of instruction from a foreman. Lovely looking, and far more environmentally friendly than anything we have today.

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  11. 16 hours ago

    A large percentage of our most treasured buildings and urban milieus from the 15th century to the 19th is basically just stucco rendering on bricks. Cheap, easy, quick, reliable, renewable. Cheating? Yes. But does it work? Absolutely.

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  12. 16 hours ago

    Mrs. Wrath informs me that this fantastic show, Hajimete no Otsukai, is on tonight at 19:00, if you have access to Japanese TV.

  13. 16 hours ago

    Cities are defined more by what they exclude than what they include. Not all great cities are organic, some are meticulously planned. The one thing they share is a veneration of exclusion, exclusiveness, walls, borders, limits, trade-offs. You can't have good urbanism otherwise.

  14. 17 hours ago

    No matter how many times I read Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, I always find something new. Here from his "Leftism: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse." Written in 1974 but might as well be written right now, only what he describes has intensified since then.

  15. 18 hours ago

    “If one does not believe in God, the only honest alternative is vulgar utilitarianism. The rest is rhetoric.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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    29 Sep 2015

    “Sacred art is indispensable as a support for the intelligence of the collectivity.” – Frithjof Schuon

  17. 18 hours ago

    "One investigation established that ... there was no correlation between the amount of heroin an individual addict consumed and his criminal activities, as there should have been if the crime committed by addicts was simply and solely to obtain money for the drug."

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  18. 20 hours ago

    Note to self: always have recent photos of relatives handy in case they go missing.

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  19. 20 hours ago

    A young officer just peaked into our garden. They're really making an effort. ご苦労様!

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  20. 20 hours ago

    Local police is crawling the neighborhood with loudspeakers looking for an 84 year old man with dementia reported missing from his home. Plenty of people in the streets and all the shops open. They should find him soon.

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  21. 20 hours ago

    My lazy neighbor never bothers to pick his fruits on time. In a week or so the birds and civet cats will get most of it. Just like last year and the year before and....

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