I might have mentioned before that one of the facts which give me delight is that "schoolmaster" and "the classroom" are perfect mutual anagrams. It is the perfection of the association of meanings as well as the cruciverbal possibilities which so please.

I take a similar pleasure in seemingly adventitious coincidences which sometimes penetrate my zone of consciousness. An example from this morning:

I had never heard, such being my intense but limited musical tastes, of a 20-years-back Norwegian pop group called A-Ha, though Emma assures me that they were big in their day. But this very morning they formed part of a solution in the Guardian crossword, to end the word "Satyagraha" (= Ghandian passive resistance). And, on p3 of this very morning's Times2, in the daily contributor's opinion and observations feature, appears a piece on the subsequent artistic career of that very group's lead singer, Morten Harket.

So, within, at most, 45 minutes, from two separate publications, this gap in my knowldege was twice drawn to my attention and repaired.

I love, and take some sort of inspiration as to the potentialities of the Universe, from such random concatenations. Does anyone else?

~Michael~