A Surplus of Possibilities

It’s amazing that my nose is still as large as it is since I have “bitten off my nose to spite my face” so many times.

Around 1953 or 1954, I called Life magazine and told them that I would like to photograph a geodesic dome that Bucky Fuller was going to build in Huntington, Long Island. I pointed out that, although I was new to the game, they had seemed to like my work when they saw it. I also pointed out that I had a relationship with Bucky Fuller and that would be helpful in doing this thing. Furthermore, I explained to them that if these things worked out, they were going to be used for the DEW Line. That stood for Distant Early Warning, which was a system of domes around the world which would be placed to evaluate ...

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