Misc. more on Chance

[kelber at mindspring.com]

The Elect don't need luck -- they've got money.  The Preterite need luck, but rarely have it.  How much of a force is it in anyone's life?

Laura

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>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
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>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........................................................................................
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>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.
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>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.
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>Enjoy if interested enough.
>http://www.bu.edu/agni/essays/print/2003/58-stavans.html
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