Professor Edward Morley and Charles "Blinky" Morgan were one and the same person!
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The important thing to remember here is that Merle Rideout is drunk.
Charles "Blinky" Morgan
Professor Edward Morley
I'm as sober as I usually am on a Saturday afternoon and I can almost see what Merle's talking about just via looks (Merle will have more reasons for his conclusion). If I were drunk (or quickly heading toward that state), I think I could also dismiss all the obvious differences in the look of these two, like length of hair, head shape, super different noses, mustache bushiness, chin and subsequent dimples, and eye size (just to mention a few. If I keep going, I might have to recant on my claim that I might think they look alike if I were drunk). If I were a modern face-blind person, I might even think these two pictures were practically the same person! But even Merle must have better reasons for deciding these two old timey guys were the same person.
Oh! Is Pynchon telling us Merle is face-blind?!
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