Connections to The Novel Cryptonomicon:
- Enoch Root apparently lives for a long time and may be a millenarian
- "Heavy" gold plays a large part in the Baroque Cycle, and a lesser part in Cryptonomicon. A plausible explanation for gold that is heavier than normal is that it is from another cosmology. Another possible explanation for the "heavy" gold is that it is partly platinum (known in the New World, but unknown to Europeans until after the action in The Baroque Cycle).