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Serendipity
Serendipity is when things just happen to occur at just the right place and time, unexpectedly. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is filled with coincidences. Conveniently, all these coincidences help the characters wrap up loose ends and solve the mystery. It is a coincidence that Anstey, who gets his head cut off because of the "Hot Potato" contract, lives next door to the Draycotts, who originally enter into the contract, never thinking the blood will end up on their doorstep. It is another coincidence that Dirk happens to move the gold record on the bathroom wall, causing the contract to fall out from behind it. Dirk himself is confused by the coincidence that his former secretary is the one who disappears in the airport explosion, after she does not take care of Thor who wants to fly to Norway. Dirk crashes his car into two other...
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