https://livesteven.com/2026/08/24/apparently-the-word-coincidence-was-possibly-used-earliest-by-sir-thomas-browne-and-thus-is-better-left-to-rest-in-his-baroque-prose-as-another-supposed-certainty-in-a-world-that-is-more-uncertai/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-08-24T08:06:44+00:00Apparently the word ‘coincidence’ was possibly used earliest by Sir Thomas Browne, and thus is better left to rest in his Baroque prose as another supposed certainty in a world that is more uncertain than that.dailyprompt, writing, dailyprompt-2867, coincidence, determination-of-co-occurrence, stoic-patience, resisting-supernatural-explanationhttps://livesteven.com/2026/08/23/do-booker-winners-become-so-for-a-reason-the-2026-longlist-came-out-on-28-july-update-3/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-08-23T16:16:35+00:00Do Booker winners become so for a reason? The 2026 Longlist came out on 28 July. Update.literature, books, book-review, fiction, booker-prize, bookhttps://livesteven.com/2026/08/23/agathe-the-first-person-narrator-of-the-vivisectors-tells-us-that-she-has-never-been-good-at-bringing-disparate-events-into-a-cohesive-narrative-such-that-either-its-parts-looked-like-st/Steve_Bamlett_blogen2026-08-23T15:39:05+00:00Agathe, the first-person narrator of ‘The Vivisectors’ tells us that she has ‘never been good at …bringing disparate events into a cohesive narrative’ , such that either its parts looked like statues standing independently, thus to be gazed at or mixed up as if they were an ‘inchoate mass’. This is a blog on Missouri Williams (2026) ‘The Vivisectors’.dailyprompt, book-reviews, books, book-review, reading, fiction, booker-2026, dailyprompt-2866, missouri-williams, the-vivisectors, nature-of-fiction