Stephenson:Neal:The Confusion:754:Two ships in the Pacifc (Armaced)

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...one is full of quicksilver, and the other is full of fire.

Here the confusion of the two books is illustrated in the parallel fantasies and observations of Jack and Caroline. On page 722, Jack imagined that a "young Princess in a drawing room staring at a map ... peering at it through a magnifying lens, would resolve the outlines of a certain ship filled with mercury..."