Chance as luck; yashmeen as Fortuna; later perspective on an earlier part of ATD

[Mark Kohut]

Well, maybe....but the author is pretty careful not to argue that Luck is deserved.............
just happens............or usually doesn't............

--- On Thu, 6/26/08, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

From: kelber at mindspring.com kelber at mindspring.com
Subject: Re: Chance as luck; yashmeen as Fortuna; later perspective on an earlier part of ATD
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 7:50 PM

Doesn't this imply that Luck is as elitist as the Protestant Work Ethic, in
that it creates a group which, in some sense, "deserves" to be lucky?
 It's possible to be doubly preterite, both unlucky and economically
disadvantaged, screwed over by both the Magical and the Capitalist.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

>I have picked up a book called Something for Nothing, by social historian
jackson Lears. 2003.
> 
>He explores Luck..in gambling, in life, in our relation to the universe,
American locus..........
> 
>He links Chance/luck with magic and divination......and in America, citing
Weber among others, says it is the necessary Counterforce, so to speak, to the
Protestant Puritan religion of control, hard work and success in life
manifesting one's salvation................
>Ah, I hear Pynchon
listening..............................................................


      
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