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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Mar 2017
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    Finally reading some Bucky Fuller in the original as opposed to glosses and Wikipedia. He seems to have been equal parts humbug and savant.

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      2. Naveen Mishra‏ @_naveenmishra 29 Mar 2017
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        to go off on a tangent, would love to do a demographic study on the use of "humbug"

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      3. R_Ganesh‏ @r_ganesh 29 Mar 2017
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        AFAIK humbug, like many British English words, is used mostly by South Indians.

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      2. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 29 Mar 2017
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        I found the density of invented words & sentence structures frustrating.

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      3. Chenoe Hart‏ @chenoehart 29 Mar 2017
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        I Seem To Be a Verb is an entertaining curiosity where it's written both backwards & forwards, with corresponding graphic design.

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        The original techno utopian. Spellbinding as a talker (I attended a lecture in early 70s). Hours with no notes. Brilliant at times.

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      1. zem‏ @zem42 29 Mar 2017
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        he was mostly just fuller himself!

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      1. Charlie Loyd‏ @vruba 29 Mar 2017
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        It’s like if there were one good idea hidden somewhere on every Dr Bronner’s bottle.

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      1. Matt Siegel‏ @mattsiegel 29 Mar 2017
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        i get the same impression from his talks 😄

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      1. megalomaniac‏ @megalomaniac 29 Mar 2017
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        feel like most savants were part humbug; not sure if that relationship goes the other way too.

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