Everything happens for a reason: Why we are fascinated by coincidences

Everything happens for a reason: Why we are fascinated by coincidences

This fall will mark six months since the death of Paul Auster, who had a fixation on games of chance. In fact, he said that a wrong telephone number inspired his famous novel City of Glass. Apparently, he received a call at night in which he was urgently asked about the Pinkerton detective agency. After clarifying that they had made a mistake, there was another call the following night. The American writer and screenwriter gave the same answer, but began to entertain an idea: if the same mistake occurred on the third night, he would say that he was a detective and begin the investigation. That call did not happen, but in the field of fiction it did, giving rise to the first novel of The New York Trilogy.

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