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Dear Somebodies:
Enjoying your thread about language
-- a little bashful about chiming in since
I might start swearing
about the Canary Islands in 1492
(C. Columbus clutches my arm as a caution).
After context is set, I ask your opinion with no time limit on response
(I'll be online at least another month).
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See a nice account of Sam playing in Nikola Tesla's
* lightning * laboratory in
_Tesla: Man Out of Time_ by Margaret Cheney.
(-American Scientist- called this book:
"excellent-- a significant contribution to the recent history of
science."
To me, this is a rich topic area, but maybe loaded, because
Tesla was ethnic Serbian-American and not on good terms
with my grouchy hero, Thomas Edison.
Mark Twain was perhaps last seen in 1943
in Tesla's room --on Nikola's deathbed.
They talked for an hour, said Tesla.
(reference same book -- indexed)
Was this friendship inter-ethnic?
In cited book, descriptions about Tesla's boyhood psychology
are fascinating
-- would Twain's be similar in some ways?
Sincerely,
Mike Pearson
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