Yesterday’s plate o’ shrimp was “primordial ooze”, three times!
A lot o’ people don’t realize what’s really going on. They view life as a bunch o’ unconnected incidents ‘n things. They don’t realize that there’s this, like, lattice o’ coincidence that lays on top o’ everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you’re thinkin’ about a plate o’ shrimp. Suddenly someone’ll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o’ shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin’ for one, either. It’s all part of a cosmic unconciousness.~ from Repo Man
Another play on this concept lies in Amazon.com’s statistically improbable phrases (SIPs), which is explained more elegantly here, but basically means interesting, distinctive and unlikely phrases that occur with unusual frequency in the text of a particular book relative to other books or “this odd phrase occurs a lot in this book, but not in other books.”
