Fortuitity and Randomness

It was a beloved cliche of 40's movies that you could stand on 42nd Street, and sooner or later everyone in the world would pass by.
What it really meant, was that amazingly, in the multitude, you would invariably bump into someone from your second-grade class,
a person you'd met on vacation in Bulgaria, or more often, someone you were trying desperately to avoid. This well-known
phenomena is a lesson in urban cosmology, probability and crtical mass.

Grains of sand in the desert or a needle in the haystack, while not exactly urban images, convey a sense of the infinite and the
smallness of one unit in a multitude. Tossed together in the cocktail shaker of the urban landscape, random paths
intersect, and the unexpected prevails.

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