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"homey stuff"--2-a

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Naturally, the greatest part of our conversation deals with architecture, both in the abstract and in terms of work in the office. Eero very generously talks everything over with me.

At the most improbable times, he will start off on something. An example would be this morning at breakfast. Last night at super he was explaining thee new thinking on TWA terminal-- an elliptical paraboloid. He tried to explain the shape [[strikethrough]] by in such di [[/strikethrough]] by such remarks as telling me to imagine a diamond out out of a rubber tire--but it didn't seem quite clear. So--at breakfast he suddenly picked up his discarded half grape-fruit, cut out the white part and finally made an elliptical parabaloid shape out of it. I discovered later in the day he had taken it to the office!

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