Missed Encounters

This page is still largely in progress.

An interesting compilation of people, circumstances, fates, who/that missed each other.

• Richard Feynman and Tannu Tuva.
• Georges Brassens and Antoine Pol (cf. my covid reading list).
• Jean Rochefort and Don Quijote.

In fiction:

• Elea and Paikan from Barjavel's La nuit des temps.

In the eye of others

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:

• Gödel, Escher and Bach from Hofstadter's volume of the same names.
• Akhenaten, Gandhi and Einstein in Philip Glass's Opera trilogy.