The question is in the title.
Bumping to see if anyone knows the answer.
Moving to Café Society helps.
As far as I can tell, it’s you. The only Google hits are on this thread.
Are you sure you have the quote right?
Which critics?
Art critics? Book critics? Movie critics?
Give us a glimmer.
What is it supposed to mean? My guess was maybe if you’re critical of an A-causes-B mechanistic explanation, you hate it when B follows A by chance?
AFAIK, it’s correctl
I don’t remember whether I read it in a book, or heard it in a film.
As nearly as I can recall, someone was writing a book and someone said the critics would hate it because of the coincidences it contained. (‘Critics hate coincidences.’) The counter argument was something about how Charles Dickens’ books are well-regarded, even though they’re full of coincidences. Or something along those lines.
Ah, right. Lazy writing to further the plot type of coincidences.