Serendipity

[Roland of Gilead]

I'm curious if anything similar to what I'm about to relate has happened to other readers here.

Up until four days ago, I had never known that the famous Lloyds of London originated in a coffee-house in London in the 17th century. I learned of this fact as I was completing Neal Stephenson's historical epic, Quicksilver.

The following day, I read this again in a Longarm western.

The next day, I read this yet again in a graphic novel comic, Rex Mundi.

What are we looking at here? Million to one odds? I read on average sixty or seventy books per year and I've been doing it for over thirty years. In all that time, I never knew this Lloyds of London factoid - and then on three straight days, in three widely disparate types of fiction, I read it THRICE!!!!!???????

Cue in Twilight Zone music.

[lurch]

...Relax...enjoy it..take note of all that is you and your surroundings. Embrace it, nothing to fear...Perhaps you may become aware of a herald device..for future events..At some point..you may be able to foretell the third or even second occurance before they happen...In other words,,nuture your awareness...its different..maybe even spooky,,but nothing to fear.......MEL

[Avatar]

Jung would call it "synchronicity" I think.

--A

[Roland of Gilead]

I knew it was one of those long "s" words.

[Edge]

Actually, I'm more impressed by the fact that someone else here is reading 'Longarm' atm.

I've read about 100 of the series in the last month or so.

[Roland of Gilead]

Edge, I've read six Longarms. It's fun to read the different styles of the various writers - I wonder how many authors (some perhaps well-known now) have penned a Longarm novel over the years?

This latest one (Longarm and the Great Milk-Train Robbery) emphasized mystery over action and had the most sex scenes of any I had read. Longarm apparently is magical in this regard - he beds more women than James Bond and does a heck of a lot less in the way of charm to bag them. And his prowess would shame most porn stars!!