Eccentric Pursuits Require Eccentric Pursuers

Eccentric Pursuits Require Eccentric Pursuers Whats more rare, eccentric pieces of art, or the people who appreciate them? Rare equipment, or someone who will seek it out, preserve or restore it, and make it available? After having spent much of my adult life pursuing and build Home Planetaria, it at last began dawning on me that I didn’t want to be the ghost in Hill House - whatever walked in Hill House, walked alone. I didn’t want to be, whoever built planetariums, built them alone. I know that’s the basis for the myriad clubs and now internet boards in existence for like ‘birds of a feather to flock together’ as they used to say. But eccentric stuff requires eccentric people. Maybe even, it’s the people that MAKE it eccentric to begin with. Somebody dreamed it up. It just didn’t appeal to enough people to become common or mainstream. Or its time in the mainstream was quickly superseded by advances that rendered the commonplace for a day the eccentric in a decade or two (think keypunch machine). So eccentric pursuits need eccentric pursuers, to MAKE them eccentric.