Merritt (with this particular spelling) isn't a very common surname in the UK (although it seems much more widespread in the USA), so I've always struggled hard to find anyone famous or just prominent in a particular field who shares it.
There's Stephin Merritt, mastermind behind The Magnetic Fields. And then there's country star Tift Merritt, who I once interviewed for a local paper. But how come I'd never heard of this bloke?
I feel duty-bound to go out and try to find some of his records now.
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and then there's Abraham Merritt.. author of "The Moon Pool" and a big influence on Lovecraft....
Yes, I've come across him somewhere. Presumably he also had a fear of non-Euclidean geometry.
aaaaaaaaaaarghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! the angles are all wrong!!!! and this ice formation is of.. no human shape!!!
If you'd had the advantage of an Aussie adolescence you would have heard of him. Max Merrit and the Meteors were pretty big in the '60s in Oz and their 'Slippin' Away' is an Oz classic.
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