a small coincidence
Nov. 9th, 2006 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adelaideseanThe first time I read Sir Arthur C Clarke's A Fall of Moondust, I was excited to see that two of the characters, Pat Harris and Robert Bryant, shared my birthday, May 23rd. This coincidence of dates sent a little shiver through my innocent, pre-teen brain. The odds against that (I thought) must be, well, outstanding! Of course, they're not at all. That book has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and 1/365th of the readership all had experienced the same moment as me.
Anyway, today, on receiving a copy of Frank Zappa's "new" album Trance-Fusion, I'm pleased to see the very same date singled out as another nexus of coincidence, it being the date on the disc from the master engineer and also the date on the Master Tape check sheet, separated by twelve years. And it's still the date of my birthday. (Funny, that.) So there you go. I may not be an innocent pre-teen any more, and these two incidents might be separated by three decades or more, but I still get a bit of a tingle...
PS. Fly in the sky: fashion for the free-falling, here and here. In space, no one can get away with being a frump any more.
Anyway, today, on receiving a copy of Frank Zappa's "new" album Trance-Fusion, I'm pleased to see the very same date singled out as another nexus of coincidence, it being the date on the disc from the master engineer and also the date on the Master Tape check sheet, separated by twelve years. And it's still the date of my birthday. (Funny, that.) So there you go. I may not be an innocent pre-teen any more, and these two incidents might be separated by three decades or more, but I still get a bit of a tingle...
PS. Fly in the sky: fashion for the free-falling, here and here. In space, no one can get away with being a frump any more.
