“What is the meaning of fate, Mulla?”

“Assumptions.”

“In what way?”

“You assume things are going well, and they don’t – that you call bad luck. You assume things are going badly, and they don’t – that you call good luck. You assume things will happen or not happen – and you so lack intuition that you don’t know what will happen. You assume that the future is unknown.

“When you are caught out – you call that fate.”