1 Yikes! What Was That?
A Few Opening Salvos

2 Conjuring the Eleemosynary
Predictions, Coincidence, and the Contents of the Mind

3 Lonesome Kangaroo Mama Blues
Coincidence as Parable (and the Google Mind at Work)

4 It’s a Small-World Surprise
Coincidence as Fork in the Road

5 Random Thoughts, Media Feedback
The Structure of Modern Coincidence

6 Hugh and Me and Phone Calls Agree
Coincidence as Shared Waking Dream

7 Of Marbles, Money, and Mulch
The Duet of Imagination and Coincidence

8 The Continuing Tale of the Cat on a Leash
How Coincidence Updates Itself

9 Didn’t Do X, Which Leads to Y
Impulse and the Coincidence of Not

10 Lies I Apparently Didn’t Tell
The Blatantly-Making-It-Up Coincidence

11 How Much Do We Know and How Do We Know It?
Coincidence and the Spacious Present

12 An Odyssey of Letters
Coincidence Illuminating the Past

13 My Brain Goes to the Moon
Coincidence Changing the Past

14 The San Francisco Quake of ’89
When Coincidence and Mass Events Collide

15 Some Final Thoughts
And a How-To of Sorts

Endnotes

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