Marie Ponsot and thought-popping

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What's that called when you mention someone or think of someone you haven't in a while and all the sudden they pop up in several places?

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/ponsot

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/ponsot_poem

More on this later. At work. Just wanted to get it down as I came across it during my lunchtime RSS feed reading.