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(244) Coincidences Two

On May 1st 2004 Jonathan Rowson, who had purchased from me a copy of Coincidences shortly after its publication in 2000, asked me when Coincidences Two would be coming out. Later that same evening, Daniel Gormally, whom I knew to have leafed through somebody else´s copy but who had not himself bought one, asked me the same question, although he subsequently claimed not to have known that Rowson had asked it previously. ...   ...   ... On August 4th 2008 I spoke by phone with my brother Neil and happened to mention the coincidence with Paula Yates buying the house next door to us in Hastings as detailed in Entry 166.  Living the Dream: A Coincidence Diary: (166) Paula Yates and family and friends. And from the Third to the Fourth (james-plasketts-coincidence-diary.blogspot.com) "Put it in your book," said Neil, to whom I had given a copy of Coincidences five years previously but to whom I had never suggested the possibility of a sequel. Later that evenin...

(243) Explanation

Explanation Some of these examples already featured in my book, Coincidences  (2000, Tamworth Press, ISBN  0 9509441 6 5)  Although even some of those have been substantially amended before I here blogged them. And I have omitted from this Blog four coincidences from that book. My book was reviewed by  Amazon  purchasers here - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0950944165/202-5062432-1652660 and less favourably here - http://www.eadon.com/coincidences/coincidencesaz79plasketreview.php But I have also here blogged over two hundred new coincidences. ...   ...   ... Blind The Spring blew trumpets of color; Her Green sang in my brain -- I heard a blind man groping "Tap -- tap" with his cane; I pitied him in his blindness; But can I boast, "I see"? Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me, -- A spirit who hears me tapping The five-sensed cane of mind Amid such unguessed glories -- That I am worse than blind. Harry Kemp  188...