Beyond Coincidence - Softcover
Now out in paperback - a fascinating exploration of the uncanny world of coincidence, it includes nearly 250 incredible stories, of which 40 are new to this edition.
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"Addictive" -- The List
"Already resulted in many an overlong stay in the toilet" -- David Baddiel
"Entertaining and intelligent" -- Mail on Sunday
"Fascinating" -- The People
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"Already resulted in many an overlong stay in the toilet" -- David Baddiel
"Entertaining and intelligent" -- Mail on Sunday
"Fascinating" -- The People
The coincidence project began as a series for Radio 4 and snowballed. The reason was that as soon as we started examining coincidences we became inundated with them. It wasn't just coincidence stories, though we soon had plenty of those; it was coincidences themselves, whose extraordinary correlations began crashing together about our own heads. Books opened at pages describing coincidence stories, people we rang were in the middle of conversations about coincidence, key words of things we discussed in the car would appear on passing billboards...
Coincidences cluster around preoccupations and no doubt we were obsessed, but when one day, while stopping people in the street to ask their birth dates as part of a probability experiment, we bumped into a man who had dedicated his whole life to synchronicity, it began to feel as though we could make them happen at will. Instead of writing books we should be buying lottery tickets!
Remembering that you're 20 times more likely to be hit by lightning than to win the lottery, we got on with the book. It's a small world, but as comedian Arnold Brown says, "I wouldn't want to paint it."
Long odds make coincidences all the more intriguing. It's the way events and objects hone in dramatically and sometimes mischievously on the very thing you are thinking about that beguiles first of all, yet as we were soon to discover, this is also a subject with enormous cultural, scientific and mathematical fascination. Not to mention coincidence jokes...
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- PublisherIcon Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1840466189
- ISBN 13 9781840466188
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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