Project Coincidence:
Episode 1, Jama of Earthly Delights
by William Mallory
was
sitting on my couch and thinking of the poster hanging on the wall of our
living room. It is of
Captain Fantastic by Elton John; the actual poster
that comes with the vinyl record. We had it framed; now it hangs on our wall.
I was looking at it and I thought to myself of Sgt. Pepper, and Admiral Hasley,
and a what other names might coincide with Military Officers. For some reason
I thought to email my Nephew who is in College now and when he was born I
had given my brother a copy of the lyrics to The Garden of Earthly Delights
by
XTC, it was cut out and laminated all ready to go as an art-piece for the
newly born. I was thinking of emailing him and telling him to look for the
song on
iTunes. Well, five minutes later Jess, my girlfriend walks in and sits at
the computer and says to me “have you ever seen the Garden of Earthly
Delights?”
I
was floored. And there on the computer is a picture of the famous painting
by Hieronymus Bosch. And there we were looking at Heaven, Hell and Earth from
the perspective of the a painter back in 1490. The crazy thing was when Jess
brought the painting up from Wikipedia, just beneath the painting was a few
other photographs of some other similar styles from the 14th to 15th centuries.
There beneath the Garden of Earthly Delights was a picture of Albrecht Dürer’s
Rhinocerus dated back in 1515. Jess said to me, “no way!” That
picture of that Rhinocerus is on the cover of Jama Magazine (The Journal of
the American Medical Association) downstairs on the porch addressed to someone
who used to live in our apartment! Jess just told me she read the Rhinocerus
in Kurt Vonegut’s Hocus Pocus. I said we’re stretching it on
that one. But the fact remains what got us from A to B on
this one was quite odd,
and by far short a tale to tell. I mind you Coincidences are quite remarkable
when measured in their magnitude. And can be said it is a call from God, an
ways of communication. The odds of these are remarkable none the less. And
the frequency they appear at times can be overwhelming. About a month ago I
was sitting on the couch and said to myself to get up and look outside and
I will see a man with a rosary in his hand. I said this to myself so I got
up and looked outside my window and there was an old man with a cap on walking
down my sidewalk hold a Rosary in his hands. I backed up in two seconds snapping
my conscience into awake mode and looked again, and I was seeing what I was
seeing. I held back from crying though I started to out of shock. But I thought
again. It was Heaven I was seeing there when I thought of the Garden of Earthly
Delights to begin with. I felt it compelling enough to right down this. If
anymore earthquakes of mind come along I will send them out via this wave of
frequency.
