I learned to trust in chance accidents, which were in no short supply.
"No, Luis," the interpreter interjected, "it was just chance, an accident, a car accident".
Six probability levels were presented on a response scale, anchored 1 6 (1 = five in 10 chance of accident, 2 = three in 10 chance of accident, 3 = one in 10 chance of accident, 4 = 0.5 in 10 chance of accident, 5 = 0.1 in 10 chance of accident, 6 = should not drive).
With characters' fictive freedom comes a respect for chance and accident as the ruling divinities of history.
The more miles traveled by car in a particular place, the greater the chance of accident, as Reid Ewing, the report's lead researcher and a professor of city and metropolitan planning at the University of Utah, said.
There is a peculiar joy in observing pure instinct at work; in one of those moments, as Francis Bacon puts it, at one point in For No Good Reason, when "chance and accident takes over".
In the past few years, Alvarez has doggedly pursued this approach to art-making, constantly fine-tuning his inventions but also embracing chance and accident when he likes the results.
There's a small chance of accident — he was planning to have dinner with his step-daughter the next day, had begun teaching, had written one or two people that he was well and writing again, and had notes on a review of your poems which he was very keen on.
Constructivism and De Stijl developed and refined the rational, geometric style that became de rigueur in modern International Style architecture by such architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, while Dadaism's and Surrealism's use of automatist spontaneity, chance, and accident influenced the formal experiments of a generation of artists, particularly those of the Abstract Expressionists.
