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Ibsen and Imhotep; Mahler, Matisse; Murasaki, Milton, Mark Twain;

Homer and Holbein, touching rims;

Ovid starring the rim of the much larger Pushkin;

Goya overlapping Sophocles.

Van Gogh touching Cervantes, next to Dickens. Stravinsky and Vyasa. Lysippus. Equiano, a West African slave writer, not located near the equator.

Chopin and Wagner right next to each other, equal size.

Chekhov and Michelangelo both double craters.

Shakespeare and Beethoven, giant basins.

Al-Jāḥiẓ, Al-Akhṭal. Aristoxenus, Ashvaghosha. Kurosawa, Lu Hsün, Ma Chih-yüan. Proust and Purcell. Thoreau and Li Po, Rūmī and Shelley, Snorri and Pigalle. Valmiki, Whitman. Brueghel and Ives. Hawthorne and Melville.

It’s said the naming committee of the International Astronomical Union got hilariously drunk one night at their annual meeting, took out a mosaic of the first photos of Mercury, recently received, and used it as a dartboard, calling out to each other the names of famous painters, sculptors, composers, writers—naming the darts, then throwing them at the map.

There is an escarpment named Pourquoi Pas.