A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings. Henri Bergson
Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a series of events - a story - and when we can't figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow. Douglas Coupland
My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern. Benoît Mandelbrot
And the only interest about him arises from the unusual series of events of which his shadow was witness. Evelyn Waugh
It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events. Carl Jung
There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide. Novalis