The Convergences Contest
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To celebrate the release of Lawrence Weschler’s Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, we’ve launched an extravagant contest: A Convergence of Convergences. Submit your own convergence—an unlikely, striking pair of images, along with a paragraph or three exploring the deeper resonances. The best contributions will be posted on the site, along with responding commentary from Weschler. Please send your submissions to everything@mcsweeneys.net—if your images are attachments (rather than links), please keep them under 1 megabyte.
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Carnival of Convergences No. 3.
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Big Eyes.
By Helen Selonick
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Eye of a bottle-nosed dolphin
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Eye of a hurricane on Saturn’s south pole
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Knuckles and Knives.
By Guillermo Núñez
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Round and Round.
By Bill Mech
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Shell (1927) by Edward Weston
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The Lighthouse building (1893-95), in Glasgow, Scotland,
designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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(See Contest Winners Nos. 2 and 3.)
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Mileage.
By Matt Haber
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Nicole R. Nason, the federal official in charge of gas-mileage standards.
(Photo from the New York Times, January 22, 2007)

Migrant Mother (1936) by Dorothea Lange
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Leaving Our Mark.
By Lauren Redniss
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(See Contest Winner No. 17.)
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Phone-y Architecture.
By Bradley Campbell
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Telefónica building. Santiago, Chile
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Telephone. Santiago, Chile
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SUGGESTED READS
The Convergences Contest: Carnival of Convergencesby Adam Cloe, Alan Prather, Aryeh Cohen-Wade, David Ng, Eric Meltzger, Greg Van Laningham, Jake Landis, John Raub, Julian Gallo, Matthew Gruenberg, Michael Rose and Rusty Lee (9/10/2006)
The Convergences Contest: Another Carnival of Convergencesby Andrea Ford, Ariel S. Winter, Jimmy Chen, Kevin Deutsch, Manuel Gonzales and Robert Joseph Carreon (10/28/2006)
The Convergences Contest: Carnival of Convergences No. 4by Adam Koford, Charlie Hopper, David Ng, Lauren Redniss and Rigel Stuhmiller (6/29/2007)