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" When a man looks for Truth, Truth looks for him." (Sufi aphorism) "The plura l of anecdote is not data." Introduction Here you will be finding some sixty  Coincidences  from   my life. ´Snapshots`  if you like.         Many fell in "a meteor shower" around the time I turned twenty-eight, and whilst for some there is complete or strong documentary evidence, for others there is not.  Mark you, it's not only me who could present such a compilation!       `The Big Yin' also recounts that,  after he "dabbled his toes" in spiritual matters, just  such examples  arrived for him  "... maybe fifteen, twenty times".     -  Billy Connolly Meditation My own coincidences seemed to lend themselves more easily to a   Narrative exposition.  To those examples which are, at least to some extent, verifiable,  I have appended a V. And to make the following of it all easier I ́ll begin wi...
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(301) A (very) palpable HIT.

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On the evening of November 29th 2025 I got this e mail from Jason Kouchak - Is RK mentioning the song Ideal for a Christmas warmer ….x This was a follow up to something I had sent him on November third - On 3 Nov 2025, at 19:01, Harold Plaskett <...   ...   ... @yahoo.co.uk> wrote: I´m not certain... but from what Keene told me he might... he just  MIGHT  be going to do something in  The Article  on me and my Blog... and add a link to your version, well, OUR version of Café au Lait ! Stay tuned. XXX  J.  And his response of November 3rd - Jason Kouchak   From: ...   ...   ... @gmail.com To: Harold Plaskett Mon, 3 Nov at 22:59 Lovely idea !xxx (Raymond Keene had made some noises about, perhaps, giving my coincidence material "a write up". I thanked him and even mentioned that I had also written a couple of songs and sung them, a cappella , at Soundcloud, adding that Jason had set one - Café au Lait - to a tu...
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(300) ´YESTERDAY´ disputes of 2018 with the co-author´s widow over whose name is to come first.

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On the evening of October 26th, 2024 I found that a guy working on our house had rearranged some stuff. And that had (somehow!) resulted in a page from a letter of mine from 2018 ending up on my writing desk. It was from a dispute with Bob Woffinden's widow in which I pointed out that the first draft of our co-authored book Bad Show had been some 75,000 words.  Of which he had written none. But I was sure I had been keeping that letter in a separate room. The bottom of the page of the letter had me pointing out that, when the manuscript was almost complete, he had suggested amending the styling of the title page from by James Plaskett and Bob Woffinden  to now read by Bob Woffinden and James Plaskett . I had not the slightest problem with that.  Indeed, in my letter to his widow of August 9th 2018, I had cited something similar. In noting, whimsically, that when McCartney asked Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, if she would agree to an altered listing of  Yesterday  no...
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(299) Caught in a pair of Dragonfly eyes

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On Sunday April 7th 2024 I was upgrading/improving The Narrative Entry here Living the Dream: A Coincidence Diary: The Narrative, plus Epilogues and Appendices (james-plasketts-coincidence-diary.blogspot.com) and lingered on Points ( 45-51 ) re William Hartston either achieving (or missing by the skin of his teeth) grandmaster norms in the 1970s. I actually e mailed him re some details. He replied and our interchange continued until, on the morning of Monday April 8th 2024, I  e mailed to ask a few more questions.  And since my 'revamping' had also demanded work on Appendices Four and Five, I e mailed again around noon to add something very similar to Point ( 63 ) of the Narrative - " Btw the crater ́s also to be seen here in the ESA Press Release - http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMEYGN0LYE_index_0.html It is the same photo as appears on my book ́s cover. Only this time in colour : March 1st 2007 was also the date on which Professor Roderick Main's book Revelations of C...
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