Inexplicable prompting
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Some years ago, hurrying to catch a train to visit friends, and without paying attention to what I was doing, I bought the only newspaper left on the stand. It was a broadsheet that I don't normally read as I'm not keen on its politics (never mind which!). As I sat down in the train an apparently random phrase came into my head that I knew I hadn't heard since school history lessons at least 20 years earlier: "The Albigensian Heresy".
It seemed an quirky set of words, I thought, as I started to read the the newspaper, for no good reason, at page 5. In the very first news story I started to read was the phrase "The Albigensian Heresy".
I can think of no statistical explanation whatever for this and it still freaks me out to think about it!
Date submitted:Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:03:23 +0000Coincidence ID:6940
