M&D/GR intersection (minor M&D spoiler)

[thomas vieth]

With TRP nothing is MERE coincidence!
Thomas

On Fri, 2 May 1997, William Karlin wrote:

> I noticed another character in M&D that makes somewhat of an appearance in
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>   The astronmer Maskelyne whom the esteemed M&D meet has a crater on the
> moon named after him...
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>   Franz's daughter while visiting him at the rocket complex (pretty much
> in the middle of GR, sorry I don't have the exact page handy at the
> moment) sez to her dad that she wants to live on the moon and picks a
> lovely crater on the edge of the Sea of Tranquility called "Maskelyne B."
>    I never would have noticed this had I not been midway through a reread
> of GR when M&D came out.  Anyone suppose this is anything more than a MERE
> coincidence?
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>   <not as exciting as the Cherrycoke/Bodine appearences, but I thought it
> was interesting>
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> --will
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