if you followed what loudoindur it was the precursor to "star wars," "terminator," this idea of movie or novel or play, lou wallace was reliving shilo agai. and he said -- just to give you an example of what a strange man he was, this is in 1885 where he's the best-selling author -- by the way oliver wendall holmes don't want anything to do with this guy, it's not high-breaux literature, but to -- high-brow literature, but to american people, it was the first time it was acceptable to readas sot re created the idea average family reading literature. sort of the popular account literature. ending by finding solace in ben hur i can bear later in 1900, 38 years after the battle when he's a worldwide celebrity, he says the awful mystery known as pittsburgh landing comes home more directly than to most of those engaged in it. oh, the lies, the lies told about me to make me the scapegoat to bear off the criminal mistakes of others, think of what i suffered. all of his letters are filled with that. shilo is responsible for ben hur, not just the plot, but the zeal to promote it. ben hur is th