Professor

There are two aspects of this coincidence. Firstly, from my point of view I was behaving completely out of character, and secondly the actual coincidence is fairly unlikely. However, the chance of both situations arising is unusual. One morning, probably well before Justin Timberlake was born, I was obsessed by the name 'Timberlake' that would not stop going through my mind. At one stage I was climbing a flight of stairs and I stopped and told myself to get the name out of my head. That evening on the news I heard that someone called Timberlake had been killed in a road accident that morning. I am certain that I could not have heard this news during the day, but I had been reading C. P. Snow's 'The Masters' and one of the characters in a Horace Timberlake.