Atd : page 542---starts on page 524.Big Ass Spoiler

[kelber at mindspring.com]

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>From: Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>

The Tesla cult, which has had
>several rises and falls over the decades, is another: he was a genuinely
>great engineer and inventor, who gradually went genuinely crazy -- and
>without grappling with at least some physics and math, it's next to
>impossible to tease apart those threads. Add the conspiratorial element AtD
>plays with-- Tesla was going to provide the world with broadcast energy free
>from the air, but They blocked him and/or turned his discoveries into
>weapons -- and you've got rich soil. 
>

A current example is the movie, The Prestige (Tesla's played by David Bowie), which is well worth seeing.  It attempts, within the confines of box-office appeal, to ask the question: what's the difference between magic and science?    So you have magicians, doubles, giant Tesla coils, etc.  The movie came out a couple-three (contagious phrase!) weeks before ATD -- hard to imagine TRP didn't give it a look-see, just for comparison's sake. 

Laura