This is hoddle in an interview near the end of his life with the science history institute, talking about meeting counterparts in england. The zoroastrian society was an informal group of military men, professors and mathematicians. They named themselves for an ancient persian religion, which had special rituals based on fire. This was hoddles kind of crowd. His personal specialty was flame throwers. And i thought it would be a good thing to get general moders into a tank mounted flame thrower with a intermittent ejection. Well, that really grabbed his imagination.