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And this last one is
"From 20,000 Feet;"

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the last I saw him.

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"From 20,000 Feet."

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I was mentioning in one
of the classes here--

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I have this kind of
obsessive sense of form

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that I keep-- it
seems to me that you

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see the same forms in all
kinds of different places.

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But people don't say
they are related.

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And I mean, you can see it
in things that are related.

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I live in a town where
there's a boat school.

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And when you look at the
boat that's half built,

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it has these ribs that
look like fish's ribs.

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And certainly, airplanes
look like birds.

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It's so obvious.

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Here we are in this age.

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And we think we're
so smart, right?

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And we're designing
things that sort of look

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like things that
were born that way.

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And it seems so
funny to me in a way.

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And now they're making these
robots that actually have

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arms and legs and everything.

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It seems that Mickey Mouse--

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I don't know.

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But they work.

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It's a good design,
we found out.

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It's better design.

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But there's a way to in which--

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we were talking in this
class about those maps

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where you can see
underneath the ocean.

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The ocean floor has the
wrinkles of a lizard's back.

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It has that kind of skin.

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It's really amazing.

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Looks just like a kind
of an animal skin.

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And there are ways
in which the boat

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looks like the wave it will
cut through and currents.

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And I love those
relations among forms.

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Most peculiar are
the ones where forms

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that seem so widely disparate
suddenly look related to you.

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This [INAUDIBLE]---- I'll
stop explaining this thing.

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"From 20,000 Feet."

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But that's my hope, that
we just don't understand

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the things that look so opposite
to us or so unimaginable to us.

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There's something related
in them we can't see.

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If we keep studying,
we'll get through.

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"From 20,000 Feet."

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"The cloud formation looks
like banks of rock from here,

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though rock and cloud
are thought so opposite.

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Earth's underlying
nature might be

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likeness, likeness everywhere
disguised by wavelength,

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amplitude, and frequency.

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If we got far enough away,
could we decipher the design?

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From here, so much goes by
too fast or slow for sight.

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Is death a stretch of time in
which a life is just a flash?

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Everything we know, we only
know that we will lose.

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The fetus, expert at
attachment, didn't

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dream that cramped canal would
open into sound and light

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and love.

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It clung, it didn't care.

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The future looked like
death to it from there."

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Thank you.

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Thanks for coming out.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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