Great Lost Thinkers

[littlebitca]

Lost musings -- speculative, not spoilery:

How many of the last names of the characters are historically recognizable, and is there any significance to it?

Desmond [David] Hume
Daniel [Michael] Faraday
Kate [Jane] Austen
Charlotte [Clive] Staples Lewis
Juliet [Edmund] Burke
John [John] Locke
George [Hermann] Minkowski

and possibly more that I just don't recognise.


Hmmmm. Somehow I think this is not random chance.

Comments

[atpo-onm.livejournal.com]

There's also the possibility of science historian James Burke. Google his name and note the first (book) hit that comes up.

(He was probably best known in the U.S. for his PBS series of a few years back, "Connections".)

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

He did occur to me. I mainly went with Edmund Burke because of the other late 18th/early 19th century philosophers on the list.

It's rather intriguing in a way. I shall be sorely disappointed if it comes to nothing more than the writers thinking it'd be cool to use names like that. Especially with the specific inclusion of the middle name 'Staples' for Charlotte.

[ladystarlightsj.livejournal.com]

I never even noticed that until last night, when everyone started using 'Faraday' and I thought "hey, I recognize that name from somewheres..."

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

It was Charlotte Staples Lewis that did it for me.


(P.S. Am heading to Ohio today, so won't be online until later in the evening).