From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
Life is not just "one damn thing after another"; that would imply that there is an order to
things - a sense and a sequence. Life is more like a collection of vignettes - an unstructured,
unscripted, unprincipled morality play. Its accidental epiphanies and revelations are both
incidental and ephemeral and, quite possibly, completely beside the point.
We should stop spending a lot of time thinking about chance, and take refuge and comfort in the possibility that every calamity, every calumny, every catastrophe has its genesis in our own tactical errors. We author our misfortune and we can be proud of it. It may be chaos, but at least we own it.