¶ Spaceship Earth
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Spaceship Earth:
“going around the Sun at 60,000 miles an hour. And the Sun itself, and the galactic system… sum totally we’re making something like a million miles an hour right now.”
Now usually when someone mentions a multidigit number to me, I blank out. But Fuller has led me into those interstellar spaces. That’s Fuller the poet, conveying reality, not describing with words.
“So we couldn’t be more of a spaceship and we couldn’t be tinier and we couldn’t be more beautifully designed… If we were to say that man was God, if that’s what you’re objecting to, that this design is so much better, then OK. But nevertheless, I call it a design… The space is a priori mystery that the space vehicle goes in. And you don’t think that it’s a mysterious thing that he had the capability to get there? It’s all part of the same mystery.”
“People who listen to me say, 'Here’s a man who’s selling screwdrivers. . . They don’t realize how mysterious screwing is.”
¶ Citations
- Rasa Gustaitis, WHOLLY ROUND (HR&W, NY), p. 161, Feb’73
