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Tetrascroll: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, A Cosmic Fairy Tale Hardcover – January 1, 1982

by R. Buckminster Fuller (Author)
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Includes the complete text and drawings from a series of twenty-one lithographs Fuller made to give an overview of his philosophy and recounts how the triangular prints were assembled into the Tetrascroll
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  1. Print length
    129 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    ULAE /St. Martin's Press
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1982
  5. ISBN-10
    0312793626
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0312793623
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  • Sarah N.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2016
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    What a jem.
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  • Woody
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    Everyone should read this :-)
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  • Gary Murphy
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Preschooler's Guide to Cosmology and Quantum Physics
    Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2007
    Ok, unless the preschooler happens to be Buckminster Fuller's daughter, that might be pushing the envelope a bit, but I do confess, I used to read this to my kids before they got to kindergarten, and while it wasn't nearly the favourite that Jelly Belly was, it made them giggle.

    Nonetheless, if you dare think your average Grade One-er is somehow incapable of comprehending the cosmos, then the book you need to get is this collection of tales Bucky would tell Allegra when she was 4, a marvellously presented storybook of which I once found 4 copies in a delete bin in a discount store, snarfed them all with grocery money, gave away three ... and lost the other, and have never seen one again.

    There are those who say they have trouble reading Bucky, and while I can imagine their plight, I would have to say that Bucky is far easier to read than James Joyce or Ezra Pound -- the key to understanding Fuller's English can be found in the title of his book "I Seem to Be A Verb" --- Fuller was very careful to avoid most nouns, seeing them as misleading. He also sought to avoid other misleading constructs such as "sunrise" (he preferred to say sun-show and sun-clip, because that is what they truly are).

    As for his vocabulary, Goldy says to the Three Bears (in Tetrascroll):

    " If you don't understand any of my words, you can find them in the dictionary."

    Wee Bear replies,

    "Out here we use cosmic thought communications. We don't have to find words in special-language diction-airies. We use a cosmic thinktionary. All your dictionaries express the universal concepts of our thinktionary but only in special, ethnic-language sound-words. The concepts such as mountains or star or nuance are the same experience-engendered concepts in all languages. We understand you perfectly, Goldy."
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  • Lloyd A. Conway
    4.0 out of 5 stars Odd and enlightening
    Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2000
    And entertaining! Fuller, self-described as, "The Planet's Friendly Genius," wrote this book as a hand-held version of a single, large scroll, covering nearly a city block,that is the original version of this work. The book uses the fairy tale character Goldilocks ("Goldy") to explain Fuller's observations on the universe. Starting with insights into the nature of experience, such as identifying the act of observation as having four components (the observer, the observed, the line of sight between them, and the background against which the observed is seen), Fuller takes the reader on a tour of cosmic and human history. The Three Bears become constellations, and serve as props for Fuller's elucidations and digressions. The book abounds with illustrations, used to reinforce the story line. The reader ends up in the Middle East, where Fuller has the great monolithic world religions rising out of the need to secure the Silk Road to the East. While I disagree with Fuller's thesis in some respects, as his worldview appears to not depend on the existence of God, and I heartily disagree with his explanation of the rise of christanity, the book is nonetheless entertaining, original, and free of malice. The inventor of the Geodesic Dome, among other things, was an American original, and his book well worth the having. -Lloyd A. Conway
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    5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonder Book
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    A hard-to-find classic, full of true wonders.
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  • AE
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  • Anna
    4.0 out of 5 stars Anna
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    En estado bien conservado pero huele a moho. El libro es magnifico, asi que ya lo tratare para que se vaya el olor
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