"Steinmetz and Twain were friends that remained,
Along with number three."
i know nikola tesla had a obsessive compulsion to stay in hotel rooms with numbers divisible by three. perhaps the "number three" that remained his friend means the literal number three? i'm not sure if he obsessed about the digit in other areas of his life.
perhaps the term "edison's medicine" is a reference to tesla himself and the fact that he was the "medicine" to edison's virus?
"All that he saw, all he conceived,
They just could not believe."
tesla was brilliant, and proposed things which even today are hard to believe. think teleportation, time travel, recording thoughts on paper.
"You took a shot and it did you in."
at first, i thought this meant tesla died from a gunshot, but he wasn't shot. maybe it means he took risks for the sake of his ambitious ideas, and suffered many hardships and poverty for it? in fact, now that i think of, that fits perfectly!
nice analysis, atomichron.
"Steinmetz and Twain were friends that remained, Along with number three."
i know nikola tesla had a obsessive compulsion to stay in hotel rooms with numbers divisible by three. perhaps the "number three" that remained his friend means the literal number three? i'm not sure if he obsessed about the digit in other areas of his life.
perhaps the term "edison's medicine" is a reference to tesla himself and the fact that he was the "medicine" to edison's virus?
"All that he saw, all he conceived, They just could not believe."
tesla was brilliant, and proposed things which even today are hard to believe. think teleportation, time travel, recording thoughts on paper.
"You took a shot and it did you in."
at first, i thought this meant tesla died from a gunshot, but he wasn't shot. maybe it means he took risks for the sake of his ambitious ideas, and suffered many hardships and poverty for it? in fact, now that i think of, that fits perfectly!