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Re: What's in a name?
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Tue, 27 Mar 2001 00:39:32 GMT
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From Dictionary.com:
Crich·ton (krtn), James. Known as "the Admirable Crichton." 1560-1582.
Scottish adventurer, linguist, and scholar whose intellectual achievements
were lauded by Aldus Manutius and Thomas Urquhart. He was killed in a brawl.
Perhaps this guy was an inspiration for some of the names. He certainly
sounds like an adventurous guy.
Bryan Beckwith
"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message
news:GAIFs0.1By@lugnet.com...
> I haven't given this too much thought, and someone has probably already
> explored this at length, but here goes. Off the top of my head I can • think
> of three (it was four, but now I can't remember one) SF series in which a
> lead character was named Crichton (under various spellings.) The ones on • my
> list so far are:
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> Farscape
> Red Dwarf
> Buck Rogers
> and like I said I can't remember the fourth.
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> Are there others? What's the deal? Coincidence? I expect so, but it's a
> not-especially-common real world name, so it stands out. Is this some
> veiled homage to the alleged writer Michael?
>
> Dave!
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