And he seems to see it: receding obliviously down a side street is the other, most likely version of himself, like a vanishing rich uncle, introspective and happy, motoring carefree through his Saturday, leaving him alone and wretched, in his new, improbable, inescapable fate.
Then one day he decided to go fishing, and a simple twist of fate launched an improbable series of events which catapulted this San Antonio entrepreneur into the presidency of New York's venerable Explorers Club.
As improbable as it seems, a similar fate may befall the post-9/11 military commissions.
A quirk of fate has cast two improbable politicians as the players to watch on homeland issues in coming months.
The play's book is by Peter Ullian, who piles an improbable amount of plot onto the fate of a few of Lorelei's drawings.
With Mr. Perry approaching the end of another term, the idea that he would tempt re-election fate again strikes many observers as improbable.
If we assume that the chloroplast genes in myco-heterotrophic Burmanniaceae undergo the same fate, then a reversal to autotrophy seems highly improbable.
Viewers are left with the sense that something so improbable could not have happened by chance alone, and the underdogʼs fate must have been written in the stars.
