Buckminster Fuller

[Bradley Hope]

 "If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top . . . that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver," Fuller once wrote. "But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday's fortuitous contrivings."

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/09/080609fa_fact_kolbert

[Peter K]

speaking of life-preserving pianos... i believe the action in the last richard foreman production @ the ontological theatre took place on a pair of sinking pianos.