RARA-AVIS: Ice Harvest, luck and fate

From: Bludis Jack ( buildsnburns@yahoo.com)
Date: 19 Dec 2005


BROYE said of the quote from a previous post:

"There is a big difference between Luck(Chance) and Fate."

Absolutely, fate is an overall picture, maybe even a life paradigm, that includes luck in enourmously bad proportions.

Fate is the doom, luck is the series of events that brings on the doom.

Jack Bludis

> > I never read the book, but I can think of any
> > number of noir stories and books that follow
> that
> > particular paradigm including Jim Thompson's
> "The
> > Grifters."
> >
> > They are the stories that help define "noir,"
> for
> > me. No matter what these characters do, they
> are
> > screwed because they are screwed up and fate
> > (luck) helps them screw up bigger and even
> more
> > with each succeeding step along the way.
> >
> > Jack

http://www.jackbludis.com Shamus nominee for "Shadow of the Dahlia" Amazon.com / BN.com / MysteryLovesCompany.com

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