Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:41:57 -0400 Subject: [ark] Re: Tesla: The Life of a Genius Status: RO In alt.religion.kibology, asw@TheWorld.com wrote: In article <1gwob9i.1m70ubcoi374kN%yoof@jwgh.org>, Jacob W. Haller wrote: >Years later, I visited Tesla while he was staying at the Chelsea Hotel, >where he and Nancy Spungen became famous for their high-quality stash. Chelsea Hotel No. pi/2 I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel You whispered so soft and sussurant Giving me shocks from your cardboard box With your newfangled alternate current. Those were the electrons - that was New York We were running for the charge and excitement Those were called larks for the workers in quarks Probably still is, for those of them left Ah, you stole away quick, didn't you, Nik, Just turned your back on DC You were so great, and you'd alternate Electric, flourometric Magnetic, and eidetic And all of that sparking around [extra verse and chorus to be inserted here at a later date when there is more margin] I haven't provided that you were three-sided I can't keep track of each fallen pigeon I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel Now you've started your very own religion... plorkwort. -- A girl and a boy bump into each other -- surely an accident. A girl and a boy bump and her handkerchief drops -- surely another accident. But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid -- *that had to mean something*. -- S. Morganstern, "The Silent Gondoliers"