And, Uh, I Did That, And There

Many Of The Younger Generation Know My Name In A Vague Way And Connect It With Grotesque Inventions, But Don't Believe That I Ever Existed As A Person. They Think I'm A Nonperson, Just A Name That Signifies A Tangled Web Of Pipes Or Wires Or Strings That Suggest Machinery. My Name To Them Is Like A Spiral Staircase, Veal Cutlets, Barber's Itch — Terms That Give You An Immediate Picture Of What They Mean.

No Matter How Thin You Slice It It's Still Baloney.

I Didn't Write Because In The Corps I Took Mining Engineering Of All Things And, You Know, They, They Graduate A Mining Engineer As A Sort Of An Illiterate.

And, Uh, I Did That, And There Was Nothing More Ridiculous To Me Than Finding The Weight Of The Earth Because I Didn't Care How Much The Earth Weighed.

Yeah, Yeah. I, I Don't Think I'm Always Right. But I Don't Think Young People Are Always Right, Either.