Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 149
2. When Norman Mailer began his novel Barbary Shore there was no
Russian spy in it. As he worked on it, a Russian spy became a minor
character. As the work progressed, the spy became the dominant character.
After the novel was finished, the Immigration Service arrested a man who
lived one flight below Mailer in the same building. He was Colonel Rudolf
Abel, named as the top Russian spy in the United States at that time.
CRACKING THE CODE?
3. While the Allies were planning the Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944,
the following code words were used (and were among the best-kept secrets
of the war): Utah and Omaha, the beaches where the American troops would
land; Mulberry, the artificial harbor to be used after the landing; Neptune, the
naval operations plan; Overlord, the entire invasion. On May 3, 1944, the first
code word, Utah, appeared as an answer to the London Dady Telegraph
crossword puzzle. On May 23, Omaha appeared in an answer to a Telegraph
puzzle. On May 31, Mulberry appeared. And on June 2, four days before the
invasion, Neptune and Overlord both appeared.
British Intelligence investigated this matter extensively. They found that
the man who created the crosswords was innocent of espionage, had no
knowledge of the invasion and was as puzzled as they were. Verdict: mere
coincidence.
4. When Hart Crane was living in Brooklyn Heights, he decided to write a
poem about the Brooklyn Bridge, which he could see from his window. It is
the poem for which he is chiefly remembered. Only a year later did Crane
discover that the address where he had lived while writing The Bridge was the
address at which Washington Roebling, chief engineer on the bridge, had lived.
5. One day in 1909, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung were in Freud's study,
having an argument about extrasensory perception. It is worth noting that
Freud was Jung's hero, virtually his substitute father, at that time. As the
argument grew heated, emotions crackled. Suddenly, for no obvious
reason, there was an explosive noise from Freud's bookcase.
"There," said Jung, "that is an example of a so-called catalytic phenomenon."
"Oh, come!" Freud exclaimed. "That is sheer bosh."
"It is not," Jung answered, seized by an uncanny certainty he could not
explain. "You are mistaken, Herr Professor. And to prove my point, I now
predict that in a moment there will be yet another loud report!"
Boom! It happened just as Jung predicted. Freud was aghast, and Jung was
gripped by an inexplicable guilt.
6. Sequel to the above: In 1972, Dr. Robert Harvie, a psychologist at
London University, was reading aloud to a friend Jung's account of the
experience. When Harvie came to the second explosion in Freud's bookcase,
a lamp inexplicably fell over with a loud crash.