"They would have killed us, if they could have got to South Africa," he mused, contemplating the exterminations in Vilnius and Heshel's fortuitous death.
As Freud put it, "Our habit is to lay stress on the fortuitous causation of the death – accident, disease, infection, advanced age; in this way we betray an effort to reduce death from a necessity to a chance event".
Indeed, the fortuitous timing of Gaddafi's death has knocked the news of the US withdrawal from Iraq almost entirely off the media's agenda.
But this fortuitous situation couldn't last.
Under capitalism, "innovative activity which in other types of economy is fortuitous and optional becomes mandatory, a life-and-death matter for the firm".
The first is certain but fortuitous: Cylon's followers were put to death in a treacherous and sacrilegious way, which was held to have incriminated his killers, notably Megacles, a member of the Alcmaeonid genos.
For all of City's quick, fluid, pass-them-to-death football, it was a scruffy, fortuitous way to score and the same applied when Silva opened the scoring earlier in the match.
And how fortuitous that the healthy baby, born so soon after Cal's death, was a boy.
The fortuitous timing of his show's opening in New York prompted a deluge of hate mail and a couple of death threats, Mr. Daisey said, but he was unfazed.
Fortuitous neurochemistry!
