Six Degrees of Kenneth Hite

I keep a bunch of books in my bathrooms. Typically, they're odd reference volumes, the sort of thing you can pick up and read a page or two from without feeling a need to begin or end at particular places. One of those books is Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast by Kenneth Hite.

Today, I was reading the section titled "Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon", wherein he connects Kevin Bacon to Ed Asner to John Wayne to Eulalie Jensen to Leon Trotsky to Karl Marx to Louis Blanc to Esquiros to Josephin Peladan to The Rosicrucian Order to Sir Francis Bacon.

One could just as easily have gone from Rosicrucian Order to Sirhan Sirhan to RFK back to JFK and Kevin Bacon. Or from Sirhan Sirhan to a Postcard that referenced him that was sent to A. Harrison.

Hite also quotes Foucoult's Pendulum, wherein Umberto Eco connects "sausage" to "Plato" in 5 easy steps.

Anyhow, there's a lot more Kevin Bacon craziness over at transitivegaming today, including Bacon Numbers for people you know. (Mine's a 4, and that ain't no Fakin' Bacon number)