Tesla (Reilly & Hunt)

[alice wellintown]

In "Narrating Tesla in AGTD", an essay in _A  Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide_,
Reilly admits that the reading of Tesla is by no means all inclusive or
exhaustive, or in any way complete. The essay makes judicious use of
Tesla's Memorial Society biography:

http://www.teslasociety.com/index.html

I decided to read the Penguin Classic Tesla, My Inventions and other
Writings, with Introduction by Samantha Hunt.  Hunt's second novel “The
Invention of Everything Else,” follows Tesla’s story in every direction.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/books/review/Thomas-t.html

If tesla is, as Reilly suggests, "Pynchon's perfect character", and I think
he is, we can discover a great deal about Pynchon's works by studying Tesla
and how he figures in AGTD. We can, I think, look back over P's works, as
Reilly does in a brief sketch--to Mason and Franklin in M&D, and so...to
other characters who are perfect characters.
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