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Fold Your Applause

I can make an airplane out of paper. Harold Gregg can make a Mercedes 320 SL, the Sydney Opera House, or the Taj Mahal.

See all this, and Gregg’s plans for the Louvre and the Crab Nebula (I’m not kidding), on his PaperToys site.

January 2, 2005March 23, 2006 | Entertainment

Unquote

“Seek simplicity, but distrust it.” — Alfred North Whitehead

January 1, 2005October 12, 2006 | Quotations

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