From Tony Lacy
I was taken by Fred Pearce’s epithet of “a simple conceit” applied to the title of David Sedlak’s book Water 4.0 (15 March, p 50). I even looked up this phrase as I had not come across it before. Imagine my surprise when, on the next page, reviewer Jonathon Keats describes the title of David Hand’s book as “simply a conceit”.
Assuming that the two book reviews were independently written, I wonder what the odds are of finding this phrase on consecutive pages? David Hand would have enjoyed this example of his “Improbability Principle”.
Llanerfyl, Powys, UK
