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  1. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Circle of Quiet

    Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story about a man who, while walking along the street, was almost hit on the head and killed by an enormous falling beam. This was his moment of realization that he did not live in a rational world but a world in which men's lives can be cut off by a random blow on the head, and the discovery shook him so deeply that he was impelled to leave his wife and children, who were the major part of his old, rational world. My own response to the wild unpredictability of the universe has been to write stories, to play the piano, to read, listen to music, look at paintings - not that the world may become explainable and reasonable but that I may rejoice in the freedom which unaccountability gives us.
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  2. Steven Johnson _ How We Got to Now: Six

    Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking – and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is almost as interesting as the way it works.
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  3. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.
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  4. Orhan Pamuk _ Snow

    Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents
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