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I Seem To Be A Verb by R. Buckminster Fuller with Jerome Agel and Quentin Fiore; Bantam Books, New York, 1970.
This is a Medium is the Massage type presentation of some of R. Buckminster Fuller's thoughts. Fuller is a genius whose works generally abound in obscure meanderings, but not in this book. At the same time too much good Fuller is omitted and replaced by pictures, quotations and cartoons that are seldom cognate or apposite. I have the feeling that Agel and Fiore took the leftovers from the Medium is the Massage and glued them together with Fullerisms. Nevertheless a little Fuller goes a long way.
Some of his statements remind one of early Ionian and Greek philosophy e.g. "Tension is the great integrity." Such a line seems right at home with Thales' "All is water"...