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by m-i-l·5y ago·view on hn ↗
Slightly off topic, but I was listening to a piece of music[0] yesterday which starts with a sample of someone saying "I knew these people. These two people." followed by another voice repeating this, over and over, becoming increasingly manic towards end. And today I read this story, and find that "I knew these people. These two people." is from the film "Paris, Texas". Odd co-incidence, although I'm sure there's a perfectly rational explanation involving probability and so on, rather than any deeper significance.

[0] Red Soil, by Teeth of the Sea

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> a perfectly rational explanation involving probability

Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is probably the closest formal explanation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof%20pheno...