I liked how he wove it together (or attempted to). Agreed that he made points which appeared to stop you and think up the story to draw a parallel but I believ

I liked how he wove it together (or attempted to). Agreed that he made points which appeared to stop you and think up the story to draw a parallel but I believe there is a cyclical nature to this. I like seeing the story behind great rivalries, Tesla and Edison, Marconi and Maskelyne, Einstein and Hilbert. Arguably you could say it parallels across the mere premise of rivalry. In any case, that was a new one for me!