https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2020/04/coincidence-and-cosmos.html
we add this note.]
Two of my favorite Christian authors, G.K. Chesterton and
C.S. Lewis, offer antithetical depictions
of the Devil. Chesterton’s is more
romantic and medieval:
Roses are redder when you believe in the Devil.
Lewis’s, by contrast, in the Silent Planet trilogy, Screwtape
and The Great Divorce, depicts what we might call the Trivial Devil
(though no less dangerous for all that).
There is no romance to him; there is, we may say, Nothing to Recommend
Him. He is no Satanic Majesty, but
more like a Satanic Misery, a
Satanic Minionism -- a Mere Mechanism.
And as a mechanism, he is given to chitter-chattery repe(titi)tition.
An example of what we could term a “diabolical” coincidence,
in this Lewisian sense, occurs in “The
Matrix”, when a black cat (Satan in miniature, as it might be) passes, right to
left, outside the doorway, and then, right after that, or sort of seguing into
it, a -- a black cat passes, right to left, outside the doorway. Neo remarks on the coincidence,
merely curious, but his more seasoned team-mates are instantly more knowing and alarmed,
for they recognize a revealing glitch in the diabolical master-program and runs
the Matrix. The faults and
behaviors of the dark lords who run the place, are eminently mechanical, since
they are, in fact, machines.
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