Life imitates the ADS-L

[Kruse, Barry]

I believe this would be 'synchronicity'

Barry K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurence Horn [mailto:laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:00 AM
> Subject: Re: pianist vs. piano player; name sought for mystical
> phenomenon
>
>
> At 5:17 PM -0500 2/7/02, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
> >
> >And when Itzhak Perlman plays klezmer music, it's on the fiddle.
> >
> And, as I recall it wasn't "Violinist on the Roof", although that
> might be the more appropriate name for a Broadway revival, with the
> prices they charge for musicals anymore...
>
> In the "Life imitates the ADS-L" department*, today--the day
> following the 20-20 Downtown piece on linguistic profiling (not badly
> done, I thought, ranging from clips of the famous exchange during the
> O. J. Simpson murder trial to an interview with John Baugh)--the new
> New Yorker (Feb. 11) arrived, containing not only a long review
> article on the Randall Kennedy book mentioned earlier on the list
> (_Nigger:  The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word_), complete with
> an excerpt from RHHDAS, but also an article on Dashiell Hammett that,
> while not directly mentioning the Elisha Cook, Jr. "gunsel"
> character, alludes to the fact that "Hammett's editor worried
> about...the obvious homosexuality of the the novel's crooks".  The
> same article mentions in passing that "Bob Dylan allows that his
> favorite film is Truffaut's 'Shoot the Piano Player', in which
> Charles Aznavour replayed Humprhey Bogart playing Hammett's idea of
> the ultimate urban hero."  I hadn't thought of this movie (which as I
> mentioned in my post this afternoon was once my favorite too,
> although I'm no Bob Dylan) in donkey's years until thinking of it in
> connection with the current "pianist vs. piano player", and here it
> is in print a few hours later, folding back on the independent
> "gunsel" thread.   Is there a name for this kind of coincidence or
> confluence, which isn't quite either syzygy or deja vu?
>
> larry
>
> *I know, I know, it's really "The New Yorker imitates the
> ADS-L" department
>