Synchronisity

[riontel]

Reading "Infinite Jest" today came across a mention of S. Johnson, name of Avril Incandenza's tragically late dog. Naturally didn't know who S. Johnson might have been named after, and everything is significant in Wallace's book, so had to look it up: Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer (according to Wiki).

Since I can only manage about 50 pages of "Infinite Jest" before my brain starts bubbling out of my ears, I've been simultaneously reading other less intense stuff and just started Bruce Alexander's "Blind Justice". Quote page 3: I was born in the year 1755 in the town of Lichfield, also the birthplace of the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson.

Well, now I know.