Airship Names
Airships in the quartet carry unusual or quirky names reminiscent of the style of the names of ships in Iain M.Banks' Culture series.
- Jenny Haniver - a dried-out skate or ray resembling a demon (this ship is later renamed the Arctic Roll)
- 13th Floor Elevator - from the band of similar name
- Invisible Worm - a reference to William Blake's poem, The Sick Rose
- Aerymouse - archaic name for a bat
- Idiot Wind - a Bob Dylan song on the album Blood on the Tracks
- My Shirona - from the hit single by The Knack
- Mokele Mbembe - a cryptozoological creature of the Congo Basin
- Garden Aeroplane Trap - a surrealist painting by Max Ernst
- Zainab - several women in Islamic history
- Group Captain Mandrake - One of the main characters in the film Dr. Strangelove
- Clear Air Turbulence
- Temporary Blip
- Plum Blossom Spring
- Die Leiden des Jungen Werther
- Shadow Aspect
- Protecting Veil
- Hungry Ghost
- The Combat Wombat
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Famous quotes containing the word names:
“If marriages were made by putting all the men’s names into one sack and the women’s names into another, and having them taken out by a blindfolded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have here in England.... If you can tell me of any trustworthy method of selecting a wife, I shall be happy to make use of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)