May 22, 2009
Yankee, meet Arthur.
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Answer:
Quoth Johny Walker: Mark Twain(2) was born (1835) when Halley’s Comet(1) came closest to earth and died when it happened again(1910).
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Who’s Arthur, then?
American satirist and writer Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, exactly two weeks after the comet’s perihelion. In his biography, he said, “I came in with Halley’s comet in 1835. It’s coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. The Almighty has said no doubt, ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’ ” Twain died on April 21, 1910, the day following the comet’s subsequent perihelion.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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HALLEYS COMET
Edmond Halley
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I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’
- Mark Twain, a Biography
He=Mark Twain
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and Twain sort of did.
Freaky…
Born two weeks after the closest approach to Earth of Halley’s Comet & said in 1910 that he would want to go out with it. He did.
Halley’s comet and Twain.
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“I came in 1835 with Halley’s Comet . . . and I expect to go out with it. It’ll be the great disappointment of my life if I don’t. The Almighty has said, no doubt, ‘Now here are two indefinable freaks. They came in together. They must go out together.’ Oh, I am looking forward to that.”
Nice post-title :)