book was something he actually wanted to attempt. The idea having simmered in his imagination for weeks, the project had advanced from the conceptual stage—which consisted mainly of daydreaming—to the beginnings of a design. He was scribbling renderings now, and his sketchbook teemed with etchings and schematics, the fits and starts of a structure. Angles and slopes, parts and paths. How it might look were it actually to exist.
Interesting mix of engineer and artist mid. unusual
