Contents
3 MORROW PAPERBACK EDITIONS $3.25
4 A Guided Tour of
5 by Hugh Kenner
7 BUCKY
8 A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller
9 Also by Hugh Kenner
10 The Pound Era
11 The Counterfeiters
12 The Stoic Comedians
13 Samuel Beckett
14 The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot
15 Gnomon: Essays
16 in Contemporary Literature
17 Dublin’s Joyce
18 Wyndham Lewis
19 The Poetry of Ezra Pound
20 Paradox in Chesterton
22 Buckminster Fuller, Santa Barbara, California, December 1967
23 BUCKY
24 A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller
25 Hugh Kenner
26 William Morrow & Company, Inc.
27 New York 1973
28 First Morrow Paperback Editions printing 1974.
29 Unless otherwise noted, all drawings are by Hugh Kenner.
30 Copyright © 1973 by Hugh Kenner
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32 Printed in the United States of America.
33 Kenner, Hugh. Bucky.
34 Bibliography: p.
35 I. Title.
36 1. Fuller, Richard Buckminster, 1895-
37 TA140.F9K46 620 [B] 79-182966
38 ISBN 0-688-05141-3 (pbk.)
39 3 4
40 75 74
41 For John and Michael
42 CONTENTS
43 one | What Am I Doing Here? | 1
44 two | The Star-Spinner | 13
45 three | The Outlaw Area | 52
46 four | Modeling the Universe | 86
47 five | Bubbles and Destiny | 129
48 six | Dymaxion Messiah | 163
49 seven | Stillbirth of an Industry | 200
50 eight | Domes | 229
51 nine | Dialogue with a Skeptic | 263
52 ten | Incoming | 290
53 Appendix I: Glossary | 317
54 Appendix II: Model Making [ 321
55 Acknowledgments | 325
56 Reading List | 327
57 Index | 333
58 BUCKY
59 A Guided Tour of Buckminster Fuller
