No, of course not, because any number of inexplicable things could happen without disproving the possibility of their being connected by chance. In this, chance was like God – nothing that happened, no event or eventuality, could either prove or disprove its immanence. And at the same time, like God, chance provided reassurance, safety, cleanliness, purity. Wasn’t that why chance was so often said to be ‘pure’? – because it flowed over the world like a fresh mountain stream cleansing everything that it touched. To cease to believe in it was to cross over into the territory of fate and destiny,
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