So I go over to blogdex this morning to see what's what and I find this link. The funny thing is, when I entered my current age (32) it mentioned ETA Hoffmann beginning his writing career. Well, I happen to know pretty much nothing about old Ernst Teodore Amadeus, except that the novel I'm reading right now is about a foundation commissioning a musicology student to finish an opera he started. The last part I read before dozing off was from the perspective of Hoffmann's disembodied spirit hoping that the completion and sucess of the opera will suffice to get his soul out of "limbo". All part of the "lattice of coincidence." (Am I the only one who remembers the lattice???)