M&D reading supplies

[Mark Peranson]

>
> Mark Peranson <peranson at interlog.com> writes:
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>| All of this mention about longitude and especially the blurb by davemarc
>| confirms my earliest suspicion when I read the press release -- that M & D
>| sounds an awfully lot like Umberto Eco's last book, "Island of Lost Souls."
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>_Island of the Day Before_, I thought?
>
>Dan

You are right, of course. That's what happen when you try to compose an
email after watching the director's cut of _Das Boot._ (Though anyone
looking for a lively read on the subject of longitude, clocks at sea, etc.
in nearly the same historical period should give Eco's book a look. I'll
shut up now.)