Another coincidence.

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Of course I was working on this column. How could it be otherwise? I was speaking with someone about Bloomsday which I consider among the more important secular holidays, and we started talking about reading in general, when I mentioned that my Hebrew reading, because it's slower than my English, allows me (sometimes) to appreciate a text more fully. And I stopped in mid-sentence, took a piece of paper out of my pocket, and made a note for this column - "another example of serendipity".

And it would appear that the filters that I'm defending in this column are precisely those that prepare us for that serendipity. Without them, things would blur one into another and we wouldn't develop an appreciation for the unexpected.

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