Continuous Coincidentals for the Occidental
Do you remember way back when I mentioned that the village where my dad was stationed in WWII had been listed in the Domesday Book? A book recording towns in the 1700's. Well, I am reading a book called the Doomsday Key. The Domesday Book, aka the Doomsday Book plays a prominent part of this book. As does an Abbey I stopped at. And some ancient ruins. And a few towns. And a number of other places around England. And Scotland. And Ireland.
Oslo also figures prominently in the book I am reading. Including a park of weird sexual statues, and the fort, and the cannons ( both the book and I mentioned that the cannons were pointed at the cruise ships ). And half a dozen other places I saw in Oslo.
I just finished a book that talked about places I visited in Romania.
The same author had another book that talked about some of the more obscure places I visited on previous trips. In fact, so many books I read mention odd little places I have gone to, many are NOT tourist or popular places. Sometimes just small villages.
Then I listen to a Mike Rowe "the way I heard it" podcast about the movie "The Jazz Singer", then 60 seconds later I open Feces Book and a friend posted about the movie The Jazz Singer.
Then, the next day, I stop at the Citroen Museum. I just passed the sign and said why not. I met the owner. Guess where he had lived much of his life? Oslo. He owned a French restaurant there.
The coincidences of so many things I see and read are unbelievable. The ones I mentioned are just a small sample of recent ones, there are many many more. I know we humans are just good at picking out patterns where none exist, but sometimes I wonder if the simulation we live in just keeps re-using code to save programming effort.