Fuller in the library of his Home Dome in Carbondale, Illinois, circa 1960

Attractively reliable acquaintances whose companionship we delight to keep. Not a methodically chosen expert's list, but the self accrediting roster of those books we happen to have met as a sequence of maturing experience and which have happened since to keep us natural company. Alternately preoccupying, they remain on the squad, some to instruct, some to distract, some to elucidate, some to elude, some to flex, some to perplex, some to affirm, some to dissolve, some to annoy, some to challenge; all to interact upon one another, all to be reread, all to be comparisioned to personal experience, all to stand in readiness as contributors to the evolving conscious totality,--and all to integrate in the gestation of new thoughts and concepts of our native responsibility, that are ever regeneratively exciting as they trend to reveal gradually the functioning of the universe -- discovered in exquisite principle,--at first hand,--and with all the attendant clairvoyant awareness of living momentarily in original all time event. That many, few or none may nave been here in universe to witness and know this event and its tantalizing significance is at first of no moment. It is the direct awareness that counts, awareness of the incisive, sublime and comprehensive quality of truth.

Thereafter, we may learn that many others nave been there too, or we may be reasonably suspicious that none, or but a rare few have witnessed; but it makes no difference, for having been there ourselves, we may employ competently and directly the principle discovered (or rediscovered) with other principles already discovered in like manner which waited only upon the latest event to realize the further synchronization of man's consciously anticipating intellectual life with the swiftly and omnidirectionally woven experience stuff, the superficial reality of the high frequency impingement of recurrent verities, infinitely propagated from out the limitless plurality of individual convergences of principles.

1. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, The Peter Pauper Press
2. What Happened in History?, 1949 by V. Gordon Childe, Professor of
   Prehistoric Archeology, London Univ.; Pelican Book Series of Penguin
   Books, Hammondsworth, Middlesex
3. On Growth and Form,1948 Edition by Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson,
   Cambridge University Press, The Macmillan Company, N.Y.
4. The Growth of Physical Sciences, 1948 by Sir James Jeans (galleys
   proofed by him just before his death), Published 1948, Cambridge University
   Press and MacMillan Company, N.Y.
5. Art, Nature and Education By Gretchen Warren, Privately Published;
   issued at Fogg Museum; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass; March 20,
   1943
6. The Prospects of Western Civilization ---1949 by Arnold Toynbee,
   Columbia University Press
7. Science and Sanity By Alfred Korzybski, Science Press Print Company;
   Lancaster, Pa.
8. Democratic Ideals and Reality, 1942 by Sir Halford Mackinder (Basic
   Works on Geopolitics), Henry Holt, N.Y.
9. The Proper Study of Mankind By Stuart Chase, Harper 'and Bros.
10. New World Order, l94O by H.G. Wells Alfred A.Knopf, N.Y.
11. The Next Development in Man and Everyman Looks Forward By .Lancelot
    L. Whyte, Henry Holt, N.Y.
12. Climate Makes the Man,1942 by Professor Clarence A. Mill, Professor
    of Experimenta1 Medicine, University of Cincinnati; Harper and Brothers
13. Short Egyptian Grammer By Gunther Roeder, Yale University Press
14. Climate and Man, 1943, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Government
    Printing Office
15. The Romance of Leonardo Da-Vinci By' Dmitri Merjkowski; Trans. by
    B. G. Guernsey;; The Modern Library, N.Y.
16. Quantum Mechanics By P. A. M. Dirac, Oxford University Press
17. East Meets West By Northrop, Yale University Press
18. Anschauliche Geometrie By D. Hilbert and S. Cohn-Vossen; Dover Publications,
    1780 Broadway, N.Y.
19. Analytical Goometry and Calculus,1946 by Dr. H. B. Phillips, Professor
    of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2nd Edition,
    John Willey and Sons, N.Y.
20. First Course in Calculus,1935 by Drs. Herman L. Slobin and Marvin
    R. Holt, University of New Hampshire Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., N.Y.
21. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry,1945 by Dr. Harvey Alexander Simmons,
    Professor of Mathematics Northwestern University, John Wiley and Sons,
    N.Y.
22. Matrix and Tensor Calculus,1947 By Dr. Aristotle D. Michael Professor
    of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
23. Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science (Group Theory) by Herman
    Weyl, Princeton University Press
24. What is Mathematics?,1948 Edition by Drs. Richard Courant and Herbert
    Robbins. (Dr. Courant is Head of Department of Mathematics N.Y.U.) Oxford
    Univ, Press
25. Number, The Language of Science, 1935 Edition by Dr. Tobias Danzig,
    The MacMillan Company, N.Y.
26. Mathematics and the Imagination By Kasner and Newman, Simon and Shuster,
    Publishers
27. Pageant of Life Science By M. W.. De Laubenfels Prentice Hall, N.Y.
28. The Nature of the Physical World- By A. S. Eddington, Macmillan Company,
    N.Y.
29. One, Two, Three Infinity,1948 by Dr. George Gamov, Professor of Theoretical
    Physics, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; The Viking
    Press, N.Y.
30. An Experiment with Time, By J. W. Dunne, A. and C. Black, LTD.; London>
    1929
31. General Chemistry, 1948 by Dr. Linus Pauling, Professor of Chemistry,
    California Institute of Technology; W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco,
    California
32. Meet the Atom, 1947 by Dr. O. R. Frisch, Introduction by Dr. Lisa
    Meitner; A.A.Wyn, Inc., N.Y.
33. Explaining the Atom, 1947 by Dr. Selig Hecht, Late Professor of Biophysics,
    Columbia University; The Viking Press, N.Y.
34. The Evolution of Physics,1938 by Drs. Albert Einstein and Leopold
    Infeld; 1942 Ed., Simon and Schuster.
35. On Understanding Science By James Conant Yale University Press
36. Relativity, the Special and General Theory and Gravitation - SC.
    American, April, 1947 Edition (Published 1914, 1920,1947) Dr. Albert
    Einstein Translated and Published 1947 by Hartsdale House
37. Geometric Aspects of Relatavistic Dynamics By L. A. Mac Coll; Published
    by Bell Telephone System
38. An Introduction to Crystallography,1946 by Dr. F. C. Phillips, Department
    of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Cambridge; Longmans Green
    and Company, Lts.
39. Newton's Principia, A Revision of Motte's Translation By Cajori;
    University of California Press
40. The Limitations of Science, 1948 by Dr. J. W. N. Sullivan; The New
    American Library, Mentor Books
41. Science and the Modern World, 1948 (reprint) by Dr. Alfred North
    Whitehead; Mentor Books
42. Application of Absolute Differential Calculus By McConell, Blackey
    and Son, Agents, MacMillan Company, N.Y..
43. Introduction to Atomic Spectrum' By White, McGraw Hill, N.Y.
44. The Philosophy of Modern Physics and Operational Procedures By P.W.
    Bridgeman, Harvard University Press
45. Foundation of Science By Poincare, Science Press, North Queen and
    McGovern Streets, Lancaster, Pa.
46. Scientists in Action By William George; Emerson Books
47. Ether and Matter By Larmore, Oxford University Press
48. Cibernetics by Norbert Weiner, John Wiley and Sons
49. The Uncertainty Principle By Heisenberg, "Two Lectures"
    at Cambridge
50. Atomic Physics By Max Born, Blackey and Son, MacMillan Company, N.Y.,
51. Theory of Games By Von Neumann, Princeton University Press
52. Modern Science and Its Philosophy By Philip Frank, Harvard University
    Press
53. The Geometry of Art and Life By Matila Gnyka, Sneed and Ward, N.Y.
54. The Principles of New Energy Mechanics By Jakob Mandelker, Philosophical
    Library, N.Y.
55. The Scientific Attitude By C. H. Waddington, Pelican Books
56. Symposium on Teleoglogica1 Organisms of the New York Academy of Science
57. What is Life? By Schroedinger
58. Electrons, Atoms, Metals and Alloys By Hume-Rotheny, Louis Cassier
    and Company, Ltd. London
59. Elementary Nuclear Theory, 1947 by H. A. Betne, Professor of Physics,
    Cornell University, John Wiley & Son
60. Logarithmic Tables of Numbers and Trigonometrical Functions to Seven
    Place, 1948 by Baron Von Vega (1794) , Trans lated by Dr. Bremiker (1847);
    Thoroughly revised and enlarged by Dr. W. L. F. Fischer, Professor of
    Natural Philosophy, University of St, Andrews, Fellow of Clare College,
    Cambridge; D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., N.Y.
61. Dutton's Navigation and Nautical Astronomy By United States Naval
    Institute; U.S. Government Printing Office
62. Bowditch's Practical Navigator, United States Naval Institute; U.S.
    Government Printing Office
63. Knight's Seamanship, United States Naval Institute
64. U. S. Nava1 Ordnance, Theories of Interior and Exterior Ballistics,
    United States Naval Institute
65. Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals, 1938 by Dr. Ovid Eshbach, Northwestern
    University, John Wiley & Sons, N.Y.
66. Kent's Mechanical Engineers Handbook, 11th Edition by Robert Thurston
    Kent; John Wiley & Sons, N.Y.,
67. Kidder-Parker Architects' and Builders' Handbook, 1948, 18th Edition
    by Frank E. Kidder and Harry Parker, Professor of Architectural Construction,
    Univ. of Penn.; John Wiley & Sons, N.Y.;
68. Machinery's Handbook, 1946 by Erik Oberg and Franklin D. Jones, The
    Industrial Press, N.Y.,
69. American College Dictionary, 1948 Random House, N.Y.