Fuller, R.B.: Cousins, Norman: Inscription to RBF

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"On a wall in his office at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, I saw a photograph of the boot of Italy taken from a plane, seeming to show the earth's curvature. His friend Norman Cousins, former editor of Saturday Review (later to launch a new review, World) sent it, inscribed:

"'. . . of all the human beings I know,

You have liberated yourself most from earth constrictions-- not just specific gravity but general modes of fixed thought.'"