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“The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.”

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Paul Laffoley, born on August 14, 1940, and passed away on November 16, 2015, was an artist whose category and identity remain unknown. His life story, achievements, and impact are currently limited in available information. more

“You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!”

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“I said, "Well, why do you believe in the Klein Bottle?" He said, "Because I can imagine it." I said, "You don't have to imagine a Mobius strip. It's right there in front of you!" But [Buckminster Fuller] couldn't see how that could involve a cross cap, meaning something that couldn't be reduced to a two-dimensional surface. Which it does. It's because he was thinking that the matrix was the thing that a fly could walk over the edge of, like a torus.”

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Author:Paul Laffoley

“The Mobius strip is only an analog for the reality of what it is.”

Reality Analog

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“[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.”

People Way Certain Excellent Toes Inventor Buckminster Fuller

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“[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times.”

Right Time Deaf Buckminster Fuller

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“I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.”

Thinking Book Inspired Masonic

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“I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.”

Study Built Architecture Diagrams

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“Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.”

Way Imagination Architecture Drawing Diagrams

Author:Paul Laffoley

“I actually challenged The Theosophical Society on their concept of planes of reality. I said, "What you're doing is, you're stacking two-dimensional surfaces in three-space. And you are not going into any other dimensions at all." And they were furious, because they thought I was attacking Madame [Elena] Blavatsky.”

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Author:Paul Laffoley

“[The Theosophical Society] are ideologues in terms of the way they present the material. That's one of the reasons why, when they teach their courses, you only get a smidgen of stuff and you have to keep coming back every week. They won't do an overview. Because they're trying to bypass your conscious critical faculties by leaking the information slowly.”

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