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like work. As the old joke goes: To be is to do. -Socrates To do is to be. -Sartre Do be do be do. -Sinatra Got that one from Kurt Vonnegut, who continues to be an influence. That's literature for you: the persistence of thought long after the thinker's death. Another thing I got from someone else, who in this case is happily alive and thriving: the making of paper models to make work lighter. My good friend Miroslav Wanek impressed me long ago with a scale model diorama of his Prague apartment. He made cardboard cut-outs of all his furniture to ascertain their ideal placement in a limited space. Likewise, when working with salvaged lumber it pays to visualize in paper. I don't know what it all means. I'm a Slav at heart and slav means slave but I can't help but feel great when given a task I can attack with utmost devotion and attention. It's not even the way I was raised but I think it's in my blood and there's no going against that. (You can try if you like to fail.) So I got out the scissors and established a system. It's not to scale but it worked. I scraped, primed, painted, and solved all the small problems that make it so satisfying to build something that will last in 3D space. |