7 Cosmic Fishing on the Grand Banks and in the Delaware River
2WORKING IN our office porch in Washington was so successful that occasionally Bucky would be moved to celebrate our congenial circumstances. At his work table on 16 October 1972, after pouring himself a fresh cup of tea, he delivered a rationale for what we were doing there—in the form of a nonstop soliloquy. Reading it now, it almost sounds like being geared up for high-speed transmission, like a fast tape for blip broadcasting…squeaks and all. The absence of predicates and punctuation results from his delivery, not from my failure to keep up.
34Bucky: ‘‘Cosmic fish in the Grand Banks that’s what’s going on in this room where we have developed such a sensitivity that it seems it might be well to stop a moment and take an inventory of what really is going on here there is the business executive type who would be saying why don’t we finish the chapter why don’t we get this book out but thank god you are not doing that and that is just the opposite of what you’re saying letting me do all this…what might only seem to be digressions but it isn’t important what we read in the newspaper because all the very extraordinarily rapid evolution is going on in the invisible spectrum and the press and TV are really missing the big show…what I’m saying is that right now all of humanity is really breaking through to a completely different way of looking at Universe…here we have Brendan cutting things out and telling me what is the really latest going on in physics really beginning to come out where I’ve been all along and Brendan and now all my friends in a sort of new strategy of just spontaneous deputies associates…Ed Schlossberg very good at this and Allegra really extraordinary at bringing me things I would have missed so we’re all around getting these reports indicating that science in general is converging with us and the great coordinate system of nature as we have discovered and so what I’m doing when I may not seem to be working on the book is this really very important cosmic fishing…first you have the intuition and then you have the second intuition about what you should do with the first intuition…we’re coming in now on really the Grand Banks teeming with all these cosmic fish that have never been caught before with comprehensivity of the role of man in Universe because humans really do have a purpose and the metaphysical is what is really very suddenly coming into prominence…and these kids really just take sex and how different it is now when evolution used to have to reproduce itself and they had to think of their bodies as just the great baby-making-machine home…well all that’s becoming extinct and the kids don’t act that way anymore and the metaphysical is emerging terribly fast and the physicists all know that I am on to the right thing except that when that man Teller who went with Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb and he was talking but the other scientists present really found me far more cogent and interesting while Teller is the one physicist who was just giving the capitalists the big boom they wanted…but now quite clearly we are all coming into phase so if we make an inventory of what’s going on in this room right now…all the permeabilities of the MITE’s and the number of nonregular octahedra and the number of nonregular rhombic dodecahedrons and then we have next the total sphere as the convergence in the vector equilibrium with its spaces and concaves and we have the concept of the limits of asymmetry in respect to the vector equilibrium as the limit of coming to the molecules that’s what we have…nuclear uniqueness and all of its variables within the domain of the three-frequency vector equilibrium and all of the things we’ve been doing the past couple of days dealing with the transformation of the jitterbug and tensegrity forming from tetra to icosa by sliding the point of concentrated pressure going from the ends to the middle and our confirmation of the original concept that the vector equilibriums are nuclear structures embracing all the variables of Universe…associating all the molecular build-ups which has to do with syntax because I am holistic and I really don’t want to be limited by…it’s like a bunch of picture puzzles used to have a picture on the box of what you were making but let’s just suppose we had no picture on the box and we had ten puzzles in different transparent plastic bags and we mixed them all up each of the puzzles with the other puzzles I think we could you and I sort of intuit which kinds of pieces must be with one puzzle and which kinds of pieces with another and eventually we could at least get them all in the right bags again so they could be worked out…and that’s what it’s been like here working these days like we had a picture of George Washington crossing the Delaware and we’d have one little piece that looked like George’s hat and we’re really just throwing in the tiles…and that’s what I’m doing giving a lecture when the kids are all following it and you really can go very fast while you’re talking about George Washington’s hat and then you’re talking about the ice around the boat and all you really have to say and all you have time for in the lecture is just to say HAT or just to say ICE like that and everybody follows and we’re really throwing in the tiles and we have the Picture of George Washington Crossing the Delaware.’’