The daily news can help a person get interested in books that pertain to the same topic, or somewhat the same. And we need some help, many times. The news of Trumpanyahu's attack on Iran got me interested in a book about ancient Iranian religion, "In Search of Zarathustra," by Paul Kriwaczek.
It was one of those books that requires a lot of skipping, although I admit to doing a lot of skipping with any book, these days. Sometimes, when a certain section of the book did not interest me, my eyes drifted over to a couple movies: the first was "Winged Migration," one you might remember from years ago. I found it at a local thrift shop.
The second one was Hitchcock's "The Birds."
When finishing the second movie, I suddenly laughed at what an odd pair these two made. They were Manichean opposites, in fact. Manichean? That is what the book was about.
What a joke my own mind had played on me. If I had deliberately chosen two Manichean opposites, I couldn't have come up with a better pair, and yet, this had happened by 'accident.'
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