Has it ever happened to you? You hear about something for the first time and then, as if ordained by someone playing tricks on you, you hear it regularly from that point onwards…
Today I was driving my mother somewhere and the Katie Melua song that I had playing on my car stereo (Half way up the Hindu Kush from the Piece By Piece
“You set me free, as if you’d taken me, Halfway up the Hindu Kush”
I don’t know if you know the song but she sings “Kush” so that it sounds longer and more like “Kuuss….sh”. My mother asked me, what’s the Hindu kooos? And I had to admit I didn’t know.
This afternoon, I decided to sit down and watch Alexander on DVD (it arrived from LoveFilm). At one point, when showing the land that Alexander has captured, the old map shows, in large writing, the Hindu Kush – it even zooms in.
And then, to my complete disbelief, my mother gives me a call… The episode of Bleak House that my parents are watching on TV has a character mentioning the Hindu Kush!
I ask myself, and you, how often Hindu Kush comes up in regular conversation/regular programming. It’s enough, as I said, to make you wonder whether someone’s playing tricks; to make you wonder whether there is a slightly mischevious God!
On Katie Melua she has two albums:
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