Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:12:59 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Patterns and coincidences
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 04/16/04 05:01PM
>I tend to notice patterns and coincidences.  For instance Dr. William
>Borucki, the head of the Kepler Mission, gives a talk on that subject
>at the Air and Space Museum on June 7th.  The Kepler Mission is to
>find extrasolar planets by observing transits of those planets.  The
>very next day, June 8th, there's a transit of Venus, for the first
>time in 122 years.  Coincidence?  Or did he set it up that way?  I
>plan to be there, and to ask him.
>
>WSFA's two regular hostesses, Lee and Erica, have adjacent Noreascon
>membership numbers.
>
>And here's an ominous pattern in the WSFA Journals I have online:
>
>* An obituary of Robert Pavlat by Bill Berg
>* An obituary of Bill Berg by Chick Derry
>* An obituary of Chick Derry by Joe Mayhew
>* An obituary of Joe Mayhew by ...
>
>If you're the author of the latter, I hope your affairs are in order.
>And I hope you'll forgive me in advance if I don't write *your* obituary!

" About six years before the disappearance of Ambrose Small, Ambrose =
Bierce had disappeared. Newspapers all over the world had made much of the =
mystery of Ambrose Bierce. But what could the disappearance of one =
Ambrose, in Texas, have to do with the disappearance of another Ambr ose =
in Canada? Was somebody collecting Ambroses?" - - Charles Fort, (Wild =
Talents (1932) , p. 847)

mjw

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