In short, there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss.

- G. K. Chesterton, 'The Blue Cross'

rattle

lesson o' de day

Definite danger to too much disclosure. Delving deep is met with deft but deliberate change in discussion. Detours don't work; debarred is debarred.

thus spake freud

Two ways of ringing in the old - remembering and repeating. So when you're not mooning over the past you're cloning it. That should explain the fish bowl.