Paul Laffoley

The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's…

— Paul Laffoley

I think [H. P. Lovecraft] knew the whole gamut. He just didn't believe any of it! He probably liked to use the…

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once,…

— Paul Laffoley

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

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I was sent to the regular public schools until I had to go to Belmont Hill. Because I wasn't doing anything. The…

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I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.

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I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of,…

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I would say [to my father], "Why don't you actually take some courses in physics instead of saying [you are not believing…

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Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful.…

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I actually challenged The Theosophical Society on their concept of planes of reality. I said, "What you're doing is, you're stacking two-dimensional…

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[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns…

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I think [Nikola Tesla] was always like that. And so it was inevitable that he would be an inventor. Because it was…

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I met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr.…

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The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with…

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I belong to the Lovecraft Society, which meets at the University. They do things like follow in Lovecraft's footsteps, just like he…

— Paul Laffoley

From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and…

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Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the…

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Eventually, to get through school, I would make good meaningless blobs if I had to. And so they thought I was falling…

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I think [H.P. Lovecraft] recognized what he was dealing with, he was dealing with demons. And he was dealing with creatures that're…

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You know, Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." I think it was inspired by that [H.P.Lovecraft stories]. You don't know who's reading…

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I like Colin Wilson, mainly because he never went to school. When you don't go to school you can say anything you…

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In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf,…

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When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I…

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Forms of energy from nature gave my father trouble. He refused to believe he was going to die. He had these weird…

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Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then…

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H.P.Lovecraft could've been trying to do a Marx to Hegel, that kind of thing, in other words, turn the thing upside down…

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My father was an extremely brilliant man. I consider him a genius, and so he probably could have joined Mensa. But why?…

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It was on Long John's show that I heard Orfeo Angelucci being interviewed. In other words, the whole thing about the green…

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My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space."…

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Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity…

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I'd had the experience with Giuseppe Conti, I said, "My God, that's my movie!" I kept seeing [The Day the Earth Stood…

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[The Theosophical Society] are ideologues in terms of the way they present the material. That's one of the reasons why, when they…

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I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too…

— Paul Laffoley

[Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back,…

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[Nikola Tesla] said he had no interest in the spiritual. He didn't believe in telepathy, didn't believe in any of that stuff,…

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When [my father] reached his majority, he was the head of the family. Everybody depended upon him. He went into a very…

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[Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties…

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Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other…

— Paul Laffoley

I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two…

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