Chance, Luck, & Destiny by Peter Dickinson

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(1) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.

t.) To take the chances of to venture upon - usually with it as object. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation.

(n.) A possibility a likelihood an opportunity - with reference to a doubtful result as, a chance to escape a chance for life the chances are all against him.

(n.) The supposed effect of such an agent something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces the issue of uncertain conditions an event not calculated upon an unexpected occurrence a happening accident fortuity casualty.

(n.) The operation or activity of such agent.

(n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose fortune fate - in this sense often personified.It’s still a bit scrappy, and parts of it work better than others, but there’s a fair amount there that I’m still pleased with. I threw in Destiny, which is the opposite of chance, to make a more resonant title and magic, because that’s an attempt to defy the randomness of chance and luck and to give the whole thing some kind of structure I threaded a re-telling of the Oedipus legend through it. A sort of scrap-book was an obvious solution, and since I’m also hopeless at research it was much easier for me to use fiction and verse to illustrate some of the points. I’m very interested in the subject, but not enough of a coherent thinker to do a straight treatise. My UK editor, Joanna Goldsworthy, asked if I’d like to do a short non-fiction book about chance and luck.

Chance, Luck and Destiny Boston Globe-Hornbook Prize for Non-fiction: Winner About the BookĬollection of original material, prose and verse, fact and fiction, on the themes of the title.

Chance, Luck, & Destiny by Peter Dickinson