Kevin's Watch

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.

...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

Jung would call it "synchronicity" I think.

--A

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

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.

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!!