Buckminster Fuller Potter

"Not until I was four years old was it discovered that this was caused by my being abnormally farsighted. My vision was thereafter fully corrected with lenses. Until four I could see only large patterns — houses, trees, outlines of people with blurred coloring. While I saw two dark areas on human faces, I did not see a human eye or a teardrop or a human hair until I was four."

Core structure

• Comfortably Off
• Teenage Troubles
• The Time of My Life
• Frowns of Fortune
• Stockade and Solitude
• Dymaxion Days

Main ideas

• Fuller's abnormal farsightedness, undiscovered until age four, shaped how he first perceived the world in large patterns.
• Alexandra's death left her parents with an aching sense of loss.

Why it matters

It documents a Fuller-related source project in a form that can be compared against the rest of the corpus, tracing the personal trials and losses behind his eventual public reinvention.

See Also

• Robert R. Potter (Robert R. Potter) — related figure

Sources

• buckminster_fuller_potter/index.md — book project directory (repo-local source tree)
• buckminster_fuller_potter/ — source project root