Coincidence sometimes can be so uncanny that could be called synchronicity. I lost touch with him after the last meeting in Gwangju,

  1. Out of four year's muteness, he sent me a message that he's now living in Germany—while I was in Germany!

We met and talked a lot: from (as usual) Gurdjieff and Ouspensky to Guy Debord and Julius Evola. The meeting gave my fossilizing life a fresh 'shock,' which I should keep in order to move on to the next note.

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