Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

“[A]dventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as th…”

“Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always …”

“A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like…”

“Sitting on Rosa's moth-littered bed, he felt a resurgence of all the aches and …”