Happenstance

The adventure-novelist Ian Fleming, after reading the Section of I of TUOT, supposedly commented, "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." He later attributed this statement to his arch-villian Auric Goldfinger. Fleming described Goldfinger as a 5 foot tall Baltic immigrant who did not pay taxes because his wealth had been transformed into gold bullion. This description did not sit kindly with Fleming's neighbor, Ernő Goldfinger, an architect who was known to be a notoriously humorless man, who would fire secretaries if they were too jocular.