Editing Propinquity (section)

==In popular culture==
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William Shakespeare's 
''King Lear'', Act 1 Scene 1 Page 5 <br/>
<poem>LEAR:
'Let it be so. Thy truth then be thy dower.
For by the sacred radiance of the sun,
The mysteries of Hecate and the night,
By all the operation of the orbs
From whom we do exist and cease to be—
Here I disclaim all my paternal care,
Propinquity, and property of blood,
And as a stranger to my heart and me
Hold thee from this for ever. The barbarous Scythian,
Or he that makes his generation messes
To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom
Be as well neighbored, pitied, and relieved
As thou my sometime daughter.'</poem>

"Love is a Science", a 1959 short story by humorist [[Max Shulman]], features a girl named [[Zelda Gilroy]] assuring her science lab tablemate, Dobie Gillis, that he would eventually come to love her through the influence of propinquity, as their similar last names would put them in proximity throughout school. "Love is a Science" was adapted into a 1959 episode of the Shulman-created TV sitcom ''[[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]]'', featuring Dobie as its main character and Zelda as a semi-regular, and a 1988 made-for-TV movie based on the series, ''Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis'', portrayed Dobie and Zelda as being married.

"Propinquity (I've Just Begun To Care)" is a song by [[Mike Nesmith]]. It was first recorded by Nesmith in 1968 while he was with [[The Monkees]], though this version was not released until the 1990s. The first released version was by the [[Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]] on their album [[Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy]], and Nesmith released a new version on his solo album [[Nevada Fighter]].

On page 478 of Jonathan Franzen's 2010 novel [[Freedom (Franzen novel)|''Freedom'']], Walter attributes his inability to stop having sex with Lalitha to their "daily propinquity".

On page 150 in [[Michael Ondaatje]]'s novel ''[[The English Patient]]'', "He said later it was propinquity. Propinquity in the desert. It does that here, he said. He loved the word – the propinquity of water, the propinquity of two or three bodies in a car driving the Sand Sea for six hours."  

In [[Ian Fleming]]'s 1957 [[James Bond]] novel [[Diamonds Are Forever (novel)|''Diamonds Are Forever'']], Felix Leiter tells Bond "Nothing propinks like propinquity."

In [[William Faulkner]]'s 1936 novel ''[[Absalom, Absalom!]]'', Rosa, in explaining to Quentin why she agreed to marry Sutpen, states, "I don't plead propinquity: the fact that I, a woman young and at the age for marrying and in a time when most of the young men whom I would have known ordinarily were dead on lost battlefields, that I lived for two years under the same roof with him."

In [[Ryan North]]'s webcomic ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'', T-Rex discusses propinquity.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2411|title=Dinosaur Comics!}}</ref>

In the [[P. G. Wodehouse]] novel ''[[Right Ho, Jeeves]]'', Bertie asks, "What do you call it when two people of opposite sexes are bunged together in close association in a secluded spot meeting each other every day and seeing a lot of each other?" to which Jeeves replies, "Is 'propinquity' the word you wish, sir?" Bertie: "It is. I stake everything on propinquity, Jeeves."

In [[Ernest Thompson Seton]]'s short story "Arnaux: the Chronicle of a Homing Pigeon," published in ''Animal Heroes''  (1905): "Pigeon marriages are arranged somewhat like those of mankind. Propinquity is the first thing: force the pair together for a time and let nature take its course."