The Importance of Chance

"I would possess Shakespeare and possess him as no one had ever possessed anyone before," he writes. "Not that I would write the tragedies or the intricate sonnets, but I would recall the instant at which the witches, who are also the fates, had been revealed to me." The reader will surely have noted the common thread that links these first revelations of the memory. As I gradually forget, you will remember. It will emerge in dreams or when you are awake, when you turn the pages of a book or turn a corner. Don't be impatient. Don't invent recollections. Chance in its mysterious workings may help you along or it may hold you back.