I Wonder How Anybody Can Think His

Many Of The Younger Generation Know My Name In A Vague Way And Connect It With Grotesque Inventions, But Don't Believe That I Ever Existed As A Person. They Think I'm A Nonperson, Just A Name That Signifies A Tangled Web Of Pipes Or Wires Or Strings That Suggest Machinery. My Name To Them Is Like A Spiral Staircase, Veal Cutlets, Barber's Itch — Terms That Give You An Immediate Picture Of What They Mean.

It Just Happened That The Public Happened To, Uh, Appreciate The Satirical Quality Of These Crazy Things.

Uh, I Just Had An Operation Last March Which Was Rather Serious And I'm Recuperating Now. I'm On A Very Bland Diet. But, Uh, I'm Lucky, I Was Just Lucky, That's All.

And, Uh, I Did That, And There Was Nothing More Ridiculous To Me Than Finding The Weight Of The Earth Because I Didn't Care How Much The Earth Weighed.

I Didn't Write Because In The Corps I Took Mining Engineering Of All Things And, You Know, They, They Graduate A Mining Engineer As A Sort Of An Illiterate.