Born in 1941 – Paul Simon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.
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It’s the feast day of Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia.
“Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the Feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even;
Brightly shone the moon that night, tho’ the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight, gath’ring winter fuel.“
Born in 1888 – T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, critic.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
–from the 1925 poem The Hollow Men
Born in 1901 – Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter.
“Words should say in a film only things an image can’t”
Above: Still from Bresson’s 1966 film, “Au Hasard Balthazar”.
Born in 63 BC – Augustus, Roman emperor.
“Festina lente.”
Make haste slowly.
Born in 1883 – William Carlos Williams, American poet.
“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.“
Born in 1911 – E. F. Schumacher, German economist and philosopher.
“There are poor societies which have too little;
but where is the rich society that says: ‘Halt! We have enough’?
There is none.”
Born in 1894 – Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.
Above: Renoir in action in his film, The Rules of the Game.
Born in 1949 – Fred “Sonic” Smith, American guitarist and songwriter.
Above: Smith with wife, Patti Smith.
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