Title: Connection in Flood Tide and Atlantis Found
Description: Pat O'Connell
RudiGunn - October 4, 2004 03:09 AM (GMT)
I just got to the part of Flood Tide where they are examining the bones of the Peking Man and an archaeologist by the name of Pat O'Connell is present. Am I correct that she is the same Pat O'Connell from Atlantis Found. The one that Al Giordino gets engaged to at the end?
DirkPitt - October 4, 2004 04:44 AM (GMT)
Interesting find, RudiGunn th:
It seems that they are two seperate women. I can't even find mention of Pat O'Connell in the Flood Tide section of Dirk Pitt Revealed <_<
It'll be interesting to see what the others say.
FLOOD TIDE
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| The crowd on deck gathered around the sub as the ship's archaeologist directed the unloading of the crates on the deck. While the archaeologist, a blond lady in her forties by the name of Pat O'Connell, was engaged in exposing the interior of the crates, Giordino threw back the hatch from inside the submersible and pushed his head and shoulders into the open air. |
ATLANTIS FOUND
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Pat's hair was a radiant red and cascaded to her waist. Her eyes were a sage green. She stood as if sculptured by an artist, her weight on her right leg with her left knee turned slightly inward. Her shoulders and arms suggested a build more muscular than most women's, no doubt fashioned by long hours of exercise in a gym. Ambrose guessed her height at five feet eight inches, her weight at a solid 135 pounds. She was a pretty woman, not cute or strikingly beautiful, but he imagined she'd look very desirable when dressed in something more alluring than jeans and a mannish leather jacket.
Dr. Kidd claimed there was no better person than Patricia O'Connell to decipher
ancient writings. He had faxed her history, and Ambrose was impressed. Thirty-five years old, with a doctorate in ancient languages from St. Andrews College in Scotland, she taught early linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Pat had written three well-received books on inscriptions she had deciphered on stones found in different parts of the world. Married and divorced from an attorney, she supported a young daughter of fourteen. A confirmed diffusionist, one who embraced the theory that cultures spread from one to another without being independently created, she firmly believed ancient seafarers had visited American shores many hundreds of years before Columbus. |
RudiGunn - October 4, 2004 05:15 AM (GMT)
thanks dirk, it's always fun to find little intricacies and tidbits even though they dont amount to muck, im interested to see what the others say too.
Kellym - October 4, 2004 09:36 AM (GMT)
th: RG!
When I read Atlantis Found I had to go back and skim through Flood Tide as I knew I had seen that name before and always assumed it was the same person *read the descriptions more closer, next time, Kelly <_< *
Helene Noelle - October 4, 2004 07:13 PM (GMT)
Yes, we are talking about two different ladies.
There is Pat O'Connell, an archaeologist with blond hair on the Ocean Retriever. Flood Tide (52)
And Pat O'Connell, the linguist with red hair in Atlantis Found. ;)
RudiGunn - October 4, 2004 11:35 PM (GMT)
i just thought it was strange to have two people by the same exact name in back to back books. She might be the same person, Clive might have liked the idea of her in Flood Tide and then had her as a major character in Atlantis Found. Why else would he bother to say the name of the archeologist, when he could have simply referred to her as ''she'' or ''an archaeologist''. Just a thought.
Foss Gly - October 5, 2004 01:28 AM (GMT)
I think it's just a case of Clive using the name of a friend again. He tends to do it a lot, as pointed out in some of the articles written here on the forum by our own Helene Noelle.
And I happen to know a fine lady in real life by the name of Pat O'Connell, coicidently.
Ella - October 19, 2004 10:21 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Kellym @ Oct 4 2004, 10:36 AM) |
| When I read Atlantis Found I had to go back and skim through Flood Tide as I knew I had seen that name before and always assumed it was the same person *read the descriptions more closer, next time, Kelly <_< * |
w: Hi there folks, my first time here so I thought i would leave a wee message!
I did exactly the same in checking Atlantis Found! (Read that first then Flood Tide a little later, but now I'm managing to get through the back catalogue and enjoying every word!)
Although Sahara was my first intro to Dirk and Al's adventures and I've been hooked ever since! th:
oswalder - October 19, 2004 11:34 AM (GMT)
Kellym - October 19, 2004 11:34 AM (GMT)
w: Welcome Ella,
There are alot of people here whose first intro to Dirk and Al was Sahara det:
Enjoy the forum and post often ;)
Ella - October 21, 2004 11:07 AM (GMT)
Hey, thanks u guys for your warm welcome! :)
Ella xx