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[synanthrope]

The law of averages suggests that the most random of events will balance out. That what we have no control over isn't inherently out to get us or out to help us. That luck is chance and chance is a mathematical formula.

I don't understand luck, but I understand math, and I don't think that luck is involved when you're chosen by someone stronger than you to become a human pinball. And I don't think anything can average out a well-born individual of more than moderate intelligence.

But then people also say death is the great equalizer. I wouldn't know that, either, as I haven't died.

I hear that there are people who can manipulate luck, to tweak the strands of reality's weave until they burst forward with fortune. I suppose, then, where does the law of averages stand on that?

June can't possibly be so bad as May, but then, May was not as bad as people made it out to be. It's almost disappointing.

Comments

[protects-her.livejournal.com]

Luck is chance and chance is math?

That's an interesting way of looking at it.

[synanthrope]

It's logical.

Hello, Finnick.

[protects-her.livejournal.com]

A lot of things aren't.

Hi, Saya. How's math been treating you lately?

[synanthrope]

Because emotion isn't.

It treats me well. I finished the interior of an engine.

[protects-her.livejournal.com]

I think it's fair to say that emotion can be predictable, though. Even if it's not always logical.

For a car?

[synanthrope]

My talents don't lie in emotions.

Yes.

[protects-her.livejournal.com]

Mine were never in math.

For anyone I know?

[synanthrope]

I don't think so.

Do you know how to drive?

[protects-her.livejournal.com]

No. My cars always came with a driver attached.

[signatures]

People can manipulate luck?

[synanthrope]

So the rumors say.

[signatures]

Liars, the lot of them.

[synanthrope]

You think so? Are you a gambling man?

[signatures]

A bit of this and that. One doesn't manipulate luck, one just changes the sort of luck they're currently holding. It's the difference between holding a coin and a bill.

[synanthrope]

My gifts don't lie in luck, I have to say.

[signatures]

You've a good number of many other talents that count.

[synanthrope]

I have things I have worked for.

[Pause]

You're much smarter than you give me credit for noticing.

[waitsforever.livejournal.com]

Is...that a metaphor, or is it something which actually happened?

[synanthrope]

You have to be more specific, Rory.

[waitsforever.livejournal.com]

Yeah, right, sorry. The human pinball thing.

[synanthrope]

It's a metaphor. Humans don't have enough bone density to actually bounce like a pinball.

[waitsforever.livejournal.com]

Yeah... That doesn't mean someone wouldn't try. Or maybe it was a bouncy curse, I don't know...

Was May...supposed to be bad?

[synanthrope]

That's what everyone said.

[waitsforever.livejournal.com]

Was it worse than other months, then?

[synanthrope]

I didn't notice any particular difference.