Coincidences
Or are they?

Is there a word for when you learn a vocab word and suddenly see it everywhere? Or read about something relatively uncommon, then within a few days see another reference to that something completely unrelated to the first instance in which you read about it? A word other than "coincidence," that is.

Here are two that I will share with you, which I recently experienced.

1. I recently finished a book called Fevre Dream. It's a vampire novel that takes place in the 1800s primarily aboard a steamboat called the Fevre Dream...which is named after the Fevre River in Galena, Ill (which is nowadays called the Galena River). FWIW, it was a very good book. Anyway, the other day I was working at the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS), and I was typing up/editing/reformatting a list of photos/daguerreotypes that the WHS has in their cased image collection. One of the images was of Galena, Ill. and the Fevre River. How often do you come across references to the Fevre River? Honestly. They even have this image digitized, so you can all see it! ::ooh, awww::



2. I've never seen the Godfather movies. However, tomorrow I am going to watch the first two with a few of my SLIS friends (apparently it's best to pretend that the third movie never happened?). Tonight I was watching Family Guy and they had an interlude thing where Peter declares to the horror of his family that he "never cared for" The Godfather. I just thought that was weird since I had plans to see it tomorrow.



That's it.