I'm experiencing a weird Baader Meinhof Phenomenon variant right now...I just started reading 2666, which concerns itself with (among other things) a mysterious German novelist in Mexico. Very odd to see this story here right now.
It was two years after that paper before I came across any other mentions of them.
The very next time anybody mentioned them to me it was in the frequency context and I'd had exactly the opposite experience of the "phenomenon." No frequency illusion at all.
I have no idea why we'd name a phenomenon after a thing that made some guy have a certain feeling this one time. It's a moronic name.
Omnibus did an episode on B Traven[0], but also did episodes on Baader Meinhof[1][2]!
[0] https://www.omnibusproject.com/317
I’m slowly making my way through 2666. The very dense, entirely descriptive prose is quite demanding but the story is quite interesting and meanders nicely. Definitely feels like drinking a large cup of very dense chocolate - delicious but must be done in small sips.
Not only did John Huston direct, his father acted in it. One of the best characters.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/b-traven-sierra-ma...