In one of the first Science Fiction stories, Jonathan Swift described Gulliever's travels into countries of giants and dwarfs. Far from being a story for children, Gulliver's interaction with unusual beings was a serious political satire. I will introduce an analogous attempt to represent different aspects of the molecular self-assembly of a buckyball molecule, an important bulding block of Nanotechnology. I will show that the nature of the chemical bond, thermal and electronic excitations, and the interplay between maximization of entropy and minimization of internal energy find a counterpart in feelings of happiness and fear, feeling ``lost'' and feeling ``at home'', from the view of ``shy little C'', a carbon atom with four valence electrons.