…should surely be able to come to the aid of one of their fellows, who writes:
“There ought to be a name for those occasional cases when one comes across something (a word, a memory, etc.) either hitherto unknown, or at least long forgotten, and then soon after one hears the word or experience used or referred to independently of one’s recent reflections.”
Have at it, smart people.
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
© Copyright 2020 Korrektiv Press. · All Rights Reserved · Admin
Serendipitous? No, not quite.
Deja vu? No…
Coincidence? No, but “strange coincidence” or “freaky coincidence” works.
Fortuity?
linguistic convergence?
vocabuconfabulation?
vocabrecog?
revocog?
pre-vocabcognition?
Oh, that? That goes by various names:
– nomoddity (back formation)
– epilexijection (if you’re into the whole Latin and Greek root thing)
– griggle (if you’re more into the Old English and Middle High German origins of words).
hi matthew
I think the word you’re looking for might be Synchronicity. Carl Jung wrote extensively about it
Love your blog (and book!)
David
brain reflux?
Deja flu. It’s rampant among French pre-schoolers.
Matthew,
Here’s mine:
Asymptotic ejaculation
Or alternatively,
Asynchronic intellection
OR
Asymetric preconception
Or,
“JDL”*
JOB
*Just Dumb Luck
A star fall
A phone call
It joins all
Synchronicity
Thanks, David – and thanks for the kind word!
And thanks to you all, smart people.
I think Malcolm Gladwell has a book in the works on this phenomenon. It’s called “The Pinball Effect”. It has, at once, a rather dampening effect on the ego, but lets us realize we are all connected by a central kitchen of cultural jingles.
For my money, I’d take the T.S. Eliot treatment of it over Jung’s.
Ya know, recently, for the first time in a long time (if ever), I was just thinking that there should be such a word.