The lives of Nicola Tesla (the real one) and ‘Tesla’ (the cosplay one) share a striking similarity. Tesla was very clever. His early inventions were decisive. He had an engineer’s fascination for how natural forces work but he had a prophet’s view of electrical energy. His later life was a decline into unfulfilled visions and penury, possibly one result of the loss of his life’s work in a catastrophic fire.
The parallel? Early success followed by decline into unfulfilled vision accelerated by disaster (penury?).
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