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Go Make Your Lightbulb

Einstein tried a billion times to make a lightbulb. He tried over a thousand times and he never gave up.... Can you call this an author’s note if it was made while writing the thing? Well okay yeah I realized as I was typing that that I had the wrong guy, but I thought it was funny so I kept it in there. ANYWAY here’s when I realized it was someone else. EDISON! It was Edison. Okay. Anyway, this guy tried so many times to make a thing that many people didn’t even think they needed. I feel like dialogue went like this; Normal people:“Why ya gotta make light complicated, all I gotta do is light a candle.” Eddy: “But what if you don’t have a candle? Whatcha gonna do then, huh? Wait till the sun comes up? WAIT WHAT IF THE SUN DOESN’T COME UP WHATCHA GONNA DO THEN HUN? THAT’S RIGHT NOTHIN, YOU GONNA DIE!” Something like that. My point is, good ole Eddy slaved over this idea that was so abstract and so out of the box that it almost didn’t even seem needed. But he still did it. H...