FLW on Beauty...  

Well, as a fan of pleasant...
Well, as a fan of pleasant banter, that very blunt and precise FLW introductory bit on the building of the new house makes any number of things kind of hard to argue with.
And it seems good advice for any number of human endeavors, expository writing included.
"Get rid of the attic ... get rid of the useless false heights below it."

Here's a good winter quiz....
Here's a good winter quiz, btw, a winter quiz on the words of a genius.
"It was nothing, it was just an accident of geography. Like if I was born and raised in New York or Kansas City, I'm sure everything would have turned out different. But Hibbing, Minnesota, was just not the right place for me to stay ..."
Who said that?
Circa February, 1966.

Seriously, no one's answered this yet?
It's been at least 30 seconds...

Yeah, I thought the date and...
Yeah, I thought the date and town might have made the answer kind of obvious. But one has to consider there may be other worthy things to do these days besides messing around on the interweb.
And I think, fastfwd, you'll find a lot of otherwise very smart people spell genius
genious (An odd fact I noticed when I was doing net searches on Bob Dylan and FLW).
How does it feel:)

Little
Bobby Zimmerman, I take it ?

Okay, on to the lightning...
Okay, on to the lightning round ...
Sorry for the aside. Dylan and Wright seem maybe to have a couple things in common. Hats, for one, come to mind. And height.

What does
this have to do with the thread subject ?

Oops, probably nothing.
Oops, probably nothing.

Oh well --
maybe the subject ran its course. I was glad for the opportunity to scan some passages of Wright's autobiography which I had been meaning to get to for some years. Thanks, dcwilson.

That most recent FLW passage ...
That most recent FLW passage that you quoted, SDR, Building The New House, is fascinating. For some reason, Bob Dylan came to mind as I was reading it this afternoon. Creative process, artistic intent, etc., and so I went looking for a couple Dylan interviews up on the internet, thus the Dylan reference/quote, from 1966, in Playboy I think, of all places. I had plenty of time (maybe way too much) but I lacked the ability to make the connections, or at least write them out satisfactorily, with any kind of clarity or cohesion. My thought was that, to a degree at least, one might insert song for house, make a case for a comparison of Dylan being to popular music what Wright was to architecture. But that's as far as I got. Sorry for going off-track there. I didn't mean to derail dc's thread, and hope that's not the case.
I'd really enjoy seeing more from the autobiography, if you decide to add it here. Thanks to you, fastfwd & others for a fun and interesting post.