Living the Dream: A Coincidence Diary

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...

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 blogged them. And I have omitted four coincidences from that book. 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 Before I then added over two hundred new coincidences. ' The plural of anecdote is not data '  "There exists a type of phenomenon even more mysterious than telepathy or precognition which has puzzled man since the dawn of mythology: the seemingly accidental meeting of two unrelated causal chains in a coincidental event which appears both highly improbable and highly significant." Arthur Koestler There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a v...