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Synchronicity
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(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
What is it called when you have a representation of a historical artifact or event that was responsible for some other event and you have a fictional representation that is tied to it by similar qualities but never explicitly said to be a reference to said thing. Kind of like an easter egg of the idea.