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Coincidental Articulation Sequence:
"Christopher Morley used to be plagued by a feeling that O.O. (Odd) McIntyre was plagiarizing Christopher’s verses. The evidence frequently seemed incontrovertible. Such couplings of identical articulations have frequently occurred and seem now to be as plentiful as the double star population of the heavens-- some natural, some counterfeit.
"However, science has theoretical explanation of the natural phenomenon.
“The mathematician Brouwer demonstrated (Bouwer’s Theorem) that when a random set of points are randomly stirred, that one of the points will at completion of stirring be proven not to have moved in respect to the total motions of all the other points, i.e., one point will have remained the center of gravity (reference - ? Ed.) of the total complex movement. If the total motion were terminated earlier, or later, another point might prove to have been the central point of the total motion.”
