24.5.2009

Junko Food

    Junko Food

    Co-author of a book on health food-Junko Lambert.

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    Journalist Peter Watson went undercover for a book he wrote that resulted in this coincidence. He posed as an art dealer called John Blake in order to recover a stolen Caravaggio painting. The book of his experiences he called The Caravaggio Conspiracy. In the week it was published, a novel by Oliver Banks also came out, called The Caravaggio Obsession, a fictional account of an art dealer trying to locate a stolen Caravaggio. In it the fictional dealer's name is Richard Blake. Watson had had some dealings with coincidences before this: he had written a book about the coincidences in the lives of identical twins.

 

    The Hanging Man

    Matthew Manning, the psychic, notes a coincidence in his book In the Minds of Millions (1978). Among his psychic claims is that of automatic drawing and writing. One of these drawings was used on a London Weekend TV programme. He called it the Hanging Man. It shows a figure in long dress-like clothes, painted shoes and a skull cap, with his hands evidently tied behind his back, suspended by his neck from a rope. Many of Manning's works have been identified as those of long dead artists, but all attempts by art experts to source the Hanging Man failed. Then, out of the blue and more than 2 years later, he heard from a woman who sent him a copy of a book, Lorenzo the Magnificient, by Hugh Ross Williamson (1974). She had been reading about his picture one day and the next, by sheer coincidence, she had bought Lorenzo and there was the Hanging Man, a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci of the hanging on 8 Des 1478 of Bernardo Bandini, a Pazzi conspirator who had murdered Giuliano de Medici. -The details of his clothes, the position of the feet, the inclination of the head, I had got these almost exactly, writes Manning.

    He goes on to say that when doing the drawing some wording which had appeared at the top left corner of it trailed off in the fifth line. -I knew I couldn't go on, although at a glance there would be no reason to think the writing was unfinished, because it was illegible and unintelligible.

    Noe seeing the original, he noted: -The writing went on for another six lines. It is mirror writing in medieval Italian.

    Swiss Twist to add to the notion of the literary universal mind as opposed to the mind-set of the plagiarist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tells of a literary coincidence in his Through the magic Door (Doyle famed for his creation of the character Sherlock Holmes, was also a spiritualist). He was staying in Switzerland and had visited the Gemini Pass, where a high cliff separates a French from a German canton. On the summit of the cliff was a small inn which used to be isolated in winter for 3 months as it became inaccessible during heavy snowfalls. His imagination was stirred and he began to build a short story of strong antagonistic characters being stuck at the inn, loathing each other yet utterly unable to get away from each other's company, each day bringing them nearer to tragedy... On his way back to Britain, in France, he came across a volume of Maupassant's Tales. The first story was called l'Auberge. The scene was set in the very inn he had visited and the plot was the same as he had imagined, except that M. brought in a savage hound.

    Doyle's initial reaction was relief that he had avoided a charge of plagiarism. He believed the coincidence was spiritually inspired, a psychic coincidence.

 

    Battle Fact

    Robert Hutchenson had been working for 2 years on a fictional story about the Israeli attacking an Iraqi neclear reactor. In 1981, while he was still completing the novel, it actually happened.