In article <20031004234519.15839.00000313@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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dippleluvr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Hi all,
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> I just read Atlantis Found, my first Dirk Pitt book, and I have a
question.
> Don't know if it's needed, but I'll put in some spoiler space just in
case . .
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> At the end of Chapter 34, Dr Friend explained that the second comet
(that
> missed the first time) is not on a collision course with Earth. Then at
the
> beginning of Chapter 35, Dr Friend calls the comet Baldwin, supposedly
after
> the amateur astronomer who rediscovered it, but Pitt immediately calls
it the
> "Murphy comet." Why does he do that?
>
> Is it just a mistake in editing? Or is it the full name of the
astronomer as in
> Murphy Baldwin, or Baldwin Murphy? Could it be a reference to a pair of
> astronomers like Baldwin-Murphy or Murphy-Baldwin mentioned earlier in
the book
> that I missed? Is it an in-joke like putting himself in the book as Dad?
Or is
> it too inconsequential an item to obsess about? <g>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> John
>
I don't remember the exact context, but could it have something to do
with "Murphy's Law"?
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