"Plans for Impossible Cities"

"Stewart Stevens and His Fabulous Bird Whistles"

"Vessels for Baal"

She touches the bruised spots
and wasn't it fun?
curiosity undiminished
she resets the horizon

He writes of avoiding his desk when inventing, avoiding the connotations of serious endeavor, of earning a living. “I wish instead,” he writes, “to be irresponsible, rash, associative, dreamy, impish, brainy, intuitive, and stupid.”

-Steven M. Johnson, inventor/author/cartoonist/former urban planner.