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"When I was your age I was before the mast on a square rigged ship that ran to Africa and I have seen lions on the beaches in the evening." […] He no longer d
by steppi 4y ago
"When I was your age I was before the mast on a square rigged ship that ran to Africa and I have seen lions on the beaches in the evening."
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He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach.
Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea.
I’d read this long ago, and never gave a thought to it that this detail must have been rooted in reality. It’s interesting to learn what the lions were doing there.
- laxd 4y agoHoly smokes! I had the book recommended to me 15-ish years ago. Today I incidentally grabbed it from our book shelf and read half of it. The lion thing stood out to me. I've never heard of lions at a beach. And now this. There is something strange about this world. Maybe time to re-read what Jung said about synchronicities.
- stjo 4y agoI’m sure it looks incredible from your point of view. But take a peak from my perspective: 1) someone writes something about lions (100% chance to happen, because someone is writing something all the time) 2) someone else quotes a popular book from a renowned author about the topic - nothing out of the ordinary 3) you, one of the thousands of readers of the quote mentioned above, started reading the same popular book today. Also, the first two happen across hundreds of posts daily on hacker news. Statistically it is not that exceptional. It still freaks me out whenever something similar happens to me :)
- laxd 4y agoYes, out of the uncountable unlikely coincidences, some are bound to happen. The comment was mostly a joke. Still, the evidence keeps piling up - that you're all just agents in a humorous world that revolves around me :)
- harry8 4y agoNah dude, it's me, I'm the center and comments like yours are just trying to cast doubt in my mind by pretending all you NPCs have the same thougt so it must be delusion... Take that for a response, Matrix! :)
- gregvab 4y agoI love it when the NPCs in my life story become half-sentient to make my day a bit better.
- sharadov 4y agoIt's the Baader Meinhof Phenomenon https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human...