Just as, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in a possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," so to it is a truth universally acknowledged that Frank Lloyd Wright was a jackass.

Okay, that was a very awkward way to get Jane Austen in this blog. But I had to do it.

But, it is true, and you don't have to take my word for it, just read his book THE NATURAL HOUSE. His arrogance shines through in sentences like "if there were no casement windows, I would have invented them." His judgemental attitude is writ clear when he calls the very common, double hung windows "guilliotine" windows.

However, as we were discussing at church yesterday, Mozart and Beethoven probably weren't all that easygoing either. Along with the singlemindeness of genius comes a certain tunnel vision that disregards other people's feelings and ideas.

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Again thanks to Wikipedia for these images.