Not P but a fave....

[Mark Kohut]

"We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on
something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate
the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call
coincidence, serendipity..."...........Julio Cortazar

This bit 'o wisdom he embodied (partially) in that story that Pynchon is
said to have translated anonymously in *Blow-Up and Other Stories*: *"Axolotl"
*
A story I have not been able to forget since reading it after watching
*Blow-Up* and buying the book.
Even the bit of snatch the movie showed so excitingly is faded.