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... chance , in dynamic interactions cognate to modern chaos theory , and in ways obviously cognate to their operation in real life : ' Death . . ./Thou art slave to Fate , Chance , kings and desperate men ' , wrote John Donne , even as ...
... chance , in dynamic interactions cognate to modern chaos theory , and in ways obviously cognate to their operation in real life : ' Death . . ./Thou art slave to Fate , Chance , kings and desperate men ' , wrote John Donne , even as ...
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... chance of extracting her some other way was slim . But all chances were slim that year . Even his own . ' The Deity was invoked only by Goeth : ' God in heaven ! ' , ' I'm busted , I'm out ! ' he said when he drew the king that lost him ...
... chance of extracting her some other way was slim . But all chances were slim that year . Even his own . ' The Deity was invoked only by Goeth : ' God in heaven ! ' , ' I'm busted , I'm out ! ' he said when he drew the king that lost him ...
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... chance , the turns of fortune's wheel , become part of an overall dramatic determinism when , but not before , their interventions are firmly fixed in the text . Chance certainly serves the deterministic purposes of the de- monic ...
... chance , the turns of fortune's wheel , become part of an overall dramatic determinism when , but not before , their interventions are firmly fixed in the text . Chance certainly serves the deterministic purposes of the de- monic ...
Contents
chaos classics and modern culture | 1 |
chaos theory Miltons Eden and Jurassic | 26 |
selfsimilarities in Shakespeare | 75 |
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