Episode 2:
I met this crazy young french director, Jean-Pierre, and his slinky girlfriend
Odile, who never says much of anything (probably mainly because Jean-Pierre
is talking all the time). He says "Just call me 'Jai-Pi', you know,
J. P. Morgan. I'm going to make millions like him." No self-confidence
problem here...
He has the strangest encyclopaedia of material in his brain: prejudice,
fact, apocrypha, philosophy, and wild speculation all blended into his own
private reality. Most entertaining, at least in short stretches.
This was his gem of a history lesson from yesterday: "You know, you
Americans think you invented all this technology. But let me tell you something.
The transistor was invented by a Frenchman at the beginning of World War
II. The British knew about it, and they were worried the Germans would get
ahold of both the invention and the inventor. So, when France fell, they
sent a commando team in to get him out, but he didn't want to leave, so
they killed him and destroyed all his papers."
Now, how can you disprove that? Or even argue?
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