Misc. more on Chance

[Mark Kohut]

Perhaps about as much force as The Counterforce in "Gravity's Rainbow"?
Hardly enough, as has been said.................

--- On Fri, 7/4/08, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

From: kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Misc. more on Chance
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Date: Friday, July 4, 2008, 4:07 PM

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

-----Original Message-----
>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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