Tuesday, February 13, 2007

 

Yesterday at Borders I uncovered one of the oddest things to grace my field of vision for a long time. I purchased a large book called the "Symbol Sourcebook," which purports to be an authoritative guide to international graphic symbols, as used by all kinds of industries. The introduction is by, of all people, Buckminster Fuller, and both the prose style and thoughts expressed are beautifully wacky. Here are some select portions:

"...it is implicit that the present discoveries of the electromagnetic behaviors of the brain and its local nerve system controls by mind will eventuate in telepathy's being graduated from society's assessment of it as mystical-magical phenomenon to an everyday communication facilty."

"Thus humans can be liberated to use their own cosmically powerful faculties to communicate what needs to be done in local Universe, as humans are uniquely capable of doing -- and uniquely advantaged to do -- by the phenomenon love and the truthfully thinking mind."

Then I flip the book to page 87, which presents me with the alchemical symbol for saltpeter. Fabulous.

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