Kurt's friend Walter Hopps, museum curator and director, was a particularly close friend of Marcel Duchamp, and Hopps reportedly had been allowed a glimpse of the object hidden inside a ball of twine in Duchamp's Ready-made sculpture, A Bruit Secret - With Hidden Noise. In this paper, presented in the fall of 1986, Kurt indicates that Walter Hopps tipped-off Kurt as to how he could "figure out" what the hidden object was. Kurt's exploration of the secret ultimately resulted in his 350,000-word ebook "A Ball of Twine" but his basic methodology is revealed in this concise and much shorter 9,300-word paper.
