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* Elea and Paikan from [[La nuit des temps]]. | * Elea and Paikan from [[La nuit des temps]]. | ||
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| + | == In the eye of others == | ||
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| + | Missed encounters can also take place not between those involved but in the eye of other people, seeing connections between them. They can also be near-miss in the sense that some of them did actually meet and interact but not precisely in the way envisioned by their matchmaker. | ||
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| + | These includes: | ||
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| + | * [[Gödel]], [[Escher]] and [[Bach]] from Hofstadter's volume. | ||
| + | * [[Akhnaten]], [[Satyagraha]] and [[Einstein on the Beach|Einstein]] in [[Philip Glass]]'s [[Opera]] trilogy. | ||
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An interesting compilation of people, circumstances, fates, who/that missed each other.
In fiction:
Missed encounters can also take place not between those involved but in the eye of other people, seeing connections between them. They can also be near-miss in the sense that some of them did actually meet and interact but not precisely in the way envisioned by their matchmaker.
These includes: