Misc. more on Chance

[Mark Kohut]

I could post a lot from/about "Something For Nothing", about Luck/Chance in America...........I have posted some.........................suffice to say it illumines 
some of P's themes.......Chums of..........anti-deterministic universe............Yashmeen's
roulette system.........Luck as counterevidence of Calvinistic predestination.............
luck is for preterites........................................................................................
 
This piece about the !Loteria! or the Ritual of Chance shows its pervasiveness in Mexico--important in "Against the Day"---where the lit crit writer came from.
 
Speaking of an anti-deterministic universe, he ends with:
Albert Einstein once said: “God doesn’t play dice with the universe.” That isn’t true. With us He plays Looooh-teh-ree-ah.
 
Enjoy if interested enough.
http://www.bu.edu/agni/essays/print/2003/58-stavans.html
 
 


      
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