Weird Synchronicity
Apr. 18th, 2005 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollI just read two books, written 50 years apart, whose background shared many elements. I don't think the recent one was borrowing from the older one and even if they had, the story they told was completely different. I think both authors hit on the same initial conditions by reasoning backward from the places they wanted to end up.
I keep getting strings of similarity like this. One week it will nothing but Lost Colonies and the next it will be Horribly Abusive Families, followed by Bad Astronomy [1] and Strained Analogies to the Mongol Empire. Aside from the similarity of details, the books involved usually have nothing in common otherwise, not in terms of when they were written, who wrote them or anything else. Does this happen to anyone else? I feel like I'm in ROSENCRANTZ AND GULDENSTERN ARE DEAD, flipping that damn coin.
1: Actually, that's kind of a constant....
I keep getting strings of similarity like this. One week it will nothing but Lost Colonies and the next it will be Horribly Abusive Families, followed by Bad Astronomy [1] and Strained Analogies to the Mongol Empire. Aside from the similarity of details, the books involved usually have nothing in common otherwise, not in terms of when they were written, who wrote them or anything else. Does this happen to anyone else? I feel like I'm in ROSENCRANTZ AND GULDENSTERN ARE DEAD, flipping that damn coin.
1: Actually, that's kind of a constant....
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Date: 2005-04-18 09:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-18 10:55 pm (UTC)Yes, though in a different domain. My hypothesis is a trickster god. Or, perhaps, several.