When my brother and sister and I were young, we always had impassioned discussions with my stepfather about coincidence. His theory is that there is no such thing. Even though he doesn’t believe in fate or that anything is preordained, he is convinced any event can be traced back to a series of preceding events which made said event inevitable. Then of course we would argue that those preceding events were pure coincidence, at which point the whole discussion started all over again, ad infinitum. To cut a long story short – my stepfather would argue it is no coincidence I did a Creative Mornings talk about sex the same month I review the movie collaterals for Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac. What do you think?


