"Your Private Sky" by R. Buckminster Fuller, published posthumously.
It's the geekiest book I've ever seen! Sr0t of a 20th century Leonardo daVinci.
From a review:
Your Private Sky presents an overview of all facets of Fuller's career, as an architect, a navigator, an inventor, an automobile designer, an editor, a cartographer, an formidible diarist. The editors have done an admirable job of selecting sections from Fuller's own writings and works and arranging them for the reader. One of the chief assets of this book is that it is overwhelmingly graphic. There is not a single page without a photo, a sketch, reproduction of a printed page...
My pens disappear down sofa backs, quantum jump, and re-appear inside closets, in the form of those otherwise unexplainable herds of brand new wire coat hangers.
Also, a small proportion of lost pens return as crushed styrofoam cups under the seats of rented automobiles.
Very expensive pens lost inside rented automobiles generally return, on rainy days, as black nylon umbrellas at airports.
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It's the geekiest book I've ever seen! Sr0t of a 20th century Leonardo daVinci. From a review:
Your Private Sky presents an overview of all facets of Fuller's career, as an architect, a navigator, an inventor, an automobile designer, an editor, a cartographer, an formidible diarist. The editors have done an admirable job of selecting sections from Fuller's own writings and works and arranging them for the reader. One of the chief assets of this book is that it is overwhelmingly graphic. There is not a single page without a photo, a sketch, reproduction of a printed page...
Hmmmm. So now perps who don't understand the system just cut off both of your hands instead?
My pens disappear down sofa backs, quantum jump, and re-appear inside closets, in the form of those otherwise unexplainable herds of brand new wire coat hangers.
Also, a small proportion of lost pens return as crushed styrofoam cups under the seats of rented automobiles.
Very expensive pens lost inside rented automobiles generally return, on rainy days, as black nylon umbrellas at airports.
It's all one Homeric circle.
A personal trainer once put this way:
"Go for a 3 mile run: doing it once cannot make you fit, but try it two times per week for a year - you will get fitter.
Eat a hunk of chocolate cake: doing it once cannot make you fat, but try it two times per week for a year . . ."
...sandwiches which will still be edible after seven years... These are already available at most railway station and motorway cafes.