As children, they lived opposite each other on the same air-force base in northern Chile.
It's as if two weavers with totally different sensibilities had been working opposite each other on the same piece.
Picture the Earth and Mars right next to each other on the same side of the sun.
The characters find each other on the same cross-country train, the Twentieth Century Limited, and Oscar sets his sights on winning Lily, and his reputation, back.
Oddly, Holden made some reference to females supporting each other on the same chat show, moments before smirking about the sex tape.
His parents died in 1995, within 12 hours of each other on the same day, his mother of abdominal cancer, his father apparently of grief.
Generations of occupiers and occupied, chasing each other on the same hills, throwing the same rocks, engaged in the same embrace of occupation, enmity and revenge.
Nightmarish stories are told of labs in which postdocs are set against each other on the same project, of fights over ownership of projects and of abusive behavior.
Mark and Sally Bailey met in an auction house in Pontypridd in south Wales 38 years ago, bidding against each other on the same brass and iron bed.
The two ended up reaching a star-crossed compromise to put on different Sholem Aleichem plays against each other on the same night.
A more conceptually adventurous version of this pairing might have pitted the bands, and their competing strategies of dwelling and moving on, against each other on the same stage.
