Tesla (Reilly & Hunt)

[alice wellintown]

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/2013/06/28/the-limits-of-psychophysics-and-physics/




On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 7:50 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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