There is room enough indoors in New York City for…

There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world’s population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.

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Prime Design (May 1960). Found in The Buckminster Fuller Reader (edited by James Meller).

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