chance meetings
I'm currently reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami. The novel is filled with seemingly chance meetings that all turn out to be part of a grand design. The unlikely hero meets a mysterious woman in a red vinyl hat, a damaged stranger who dresses like Jackie O, an elderly man ravaged by war memories, a teenaged girl who is responsible for her boyfriend's death by motorcycle, and a wealthy benefactress who inexplicably dresses our hero up in fine clothes and gives him large sums of money. Throughout it all, there is a feeling of something sinister going on, something that neither the hero nor the reader can quite grasp. I'm guessing that, in the end, this grand design all works itself out and becomes quite clear, but I still have about 130 pages to go.
The Exercise
Write about a chance meeting.
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