There are not in the world at any one time
more than a dozen persons who read and
understand Plato,- never enough to pay for
an edition of his works; yet to every generation
these come duly down, for the sake of those few
persons, as if God brought them in his hand.
>https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/a-decomposing-body-10-duped-girlfriends-saga-alien-con-man-hollywoods-backyard-1037967
September 14, 2017, 6:15am PDT
Jeffrey Lash was a spy, a post-9/11 covert operative who seduced women in L.A.'s tony Pacific Palisades with tales of, yes, supernatural powers. But when police found him dead in his car with a $5 million gun stash near the homes of showbiz elite, a stranger-than-fiction tale emerged of abuse, lies, a mystery illness and a grifter with "more charisma than 10 Trumps."