![]() ![]() On April the 15th President Lincoln died, the Titanic sank and Dorothy Wordsworth recorded the view of those daffodils that her brother would soon immortalize. However, as one considers more and more coincidences, the evidence mounts that they indeed constitute an unexplained phenomenon. Devout scholars with a reputation to defend are likely to shy away from dabbling in the realm of the uncanny. Not only scoffers and unbelievers will deride any assertion that coincidences can be meaningful. With style.Coincidences, spooky or not, have exercised the minds of great thinkers and writers. Understanding is a very personal choice.Īs I said to students, I do not preach. Reading is the real beginning of history. Hearing what people have dealt with, good or bad, goes back to the first human collectives. His grandfather, a Civil War Confederate that I have written about, knew as a boy a man who shook hands with George Washington. Before one knows it, the connections are gone. It is troubling to experience that many old or young citizens do not do either. Reading and listening, two very inexpensive was to spend life. It's a wonder I can think at all, said Paul Simon. I love sci-fi too much and will read awful ones on Kindle to escape. I read the Beat Poet whenever I feel beaten. cummings' greatest hits and have in the last year written close to a hundred sonnets in Shakespeare's style but not quality. I am currently reading George Eliot's Middlemarch one chapter at a time only because Gore Vidal once said you must read it to be literate. I read cereal boxes, magazine covers at Giant Food, the crawl on whatever news channel, license plates, etc. Being unable to read or no interest is a combination of grief and sinfulness.
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