There's something so evocative, so compelling about Nikola Tesla, as if everything he invented was on the shadowy edge of possibility. He was a modern wizard with all the wonderful dark mystery that should attend that title. Now wizards are sterile technophiles with merely complicated, but reproducible results.
I have published four novels and two academic books; forthcoming in 2014 is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
There's something so evocative, so compelling about Nikola Tesla, as if everything he invented was on the shadowy edge of possibility. He was a modern wizard with all the wonderful dark mystery that should attend that title. Now wizards are sterile technophiles with merely complicated, but reproducible results.
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