Sunday, September 23, 2007

...once you..._ _ _ . _ _...your body will follow

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TRANSCRIBER'S CERTIFICATE
I certify that the foregoing is a correct transcript from the record of proceedings in the above-entitled matter. Attendee comments during playback have been omitted. Dated at Atlanta, Georgia, this 23rd day of September, 2003.
Signed: Ben Mack

...gar...
He’s mobilizing the 6th fleet

You go into the first room and it’s dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally...you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it’s all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next room.
-Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Conjecture

...gar...

DR. WILLIAM FINK:
Oglethorpe didn’t put any of this in her report.

HOWARD CAMPBELL:
I didn’t get a chance to tell her. I’m glad I’m getting the chance to tell you this now because his room was way peculiar. I mean I had seen his art installations at Bennington, but this was a new kind of art. It was an intellectual sculpture. The dining room table was center stage. Within the chaos of all his books and notes and DVDs, the dining room table was an uncharacteristically neat work area. I knew him well enough to know that. If you could have seen his dorm in college, it looked like a cyclone hit it but he knew where everything was. No. The note on the manuscript was meant for me to read. Bucky had created an event for me to experience. He imagined me reading all of his words and they were more carefully chosen than a casual glance would glean. He was…

DR. WILLIAM FINK:
Bucky?

HOWARD CAMPBELL:
Oh. We never called him Richard. We called him Bucky. We thought of him as a misunderstood genius. Bucky wasn’t his middle name or anything, just a nickname that stuck, because he built geodesic domes out of straws in his dorm room at Bennington.

DR. WILLIAM FINK:
Bucky, as in Buckminster Fuller, the engineer who designed geodesic domes?

HOWARD CAMPBELL:
Exactly. The guy who made-up the word synergy. Fuller’s first book was called: Nine Chains To The Moon, An Adventure In Thought. That’s what it was like interacting with our Bucky, Richard Wilson. It was an adventure in thought.

I know Bucky about as well as I know anybody. Better probably. We had lived together for a number of years. I knew his eccentricities. I had tasted the luxuries his inheritance had provided. I didn’t think twice about ordering room service. I ordered a crab salad for each of us, thinking he would be back soon. I scarfed [sic] one down, and then the next, waiting for him on the patio. I wasn’t peeved. I stared out at the ocean. I figured Bucky was just fucking with me, with the note and all, and that he was out surfing or something. I figured he would be back soon. After lunch, I checked my email, and found the one from you. Well, you know what I spoke to Nurse Oglethorpe about, and I saw Bucky when we had arranged two days after that. And, I was expecting to meet you before I saw Bucky the next day at Kane'ohe Hospital. Bucky didn’t seem alive.
[SOUND: PAPERS BEING SORTED]

DR. WILLIAM FINK:
None of this is in Nurse Oglethorpe’s report.

LIZ BOSWELL: Use the force, Ben. Use the force.

You reall found me interesting?

BEN MACK: Usually i don't like being around interesting people because that means i have to be interesting.

LIZ BOSWELL: So you find me interesting?

BEN MACK: Let's just say this: Every time i'm around you i find myself showing off, which is the idiot's version of being interesting.

September 23, 2007 at 8:34 PM

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