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In the first episode of a brand new season, the Cat gets synchronistic over the profundity of coincidence. While Joseph performs an experiment with time and Kaaron buys a ‘decorative stack’, Aaron confuses a French orgasm for a high-protein yoghurt. The centrality of coincidence is discussed – and why coincidence illuminates in life, but disappoints in fiction. Also, the excitement of hidden connections, stepping out of the everyday into the unreal, and how the orchestration of coincidence can be worse than a betrayal. Violations of privacy. Seeking narrative in the real. The drive to understand one another. Aaron has a creepy encounter in a bookshop. Kaaron has strong feelings about twins. Joseph uses a wanky word. Everyone crosses a line.
Boundaries and limitations transcended in this episode include:
- Agatha Christie’s The Sleeping Murder
- J.W. Dunne’s An Experiment With Time
- WG Sebald’s The Rings Of Saturn
- John Le Carré’s Silverview
- Kaaron’s story (and film) A-Positive
- Josephine Tey’s Brat Farrar
- Paul Auster’s Leviathan
- M. John Harrison’s anti-memoir Wish I Was Here
