James Jennewein

What the fates have writ, men shall not erase . . . . How many times he [Lut] had uttered those words. But what exactly did they mean? That one__ fate was inalterably fixed? A man__ entire life? Was there no chance for redemption? Though he had never revealed this to anyone, especially not the elders, he__ long entertained the notion that perhaps not all of a man__ life was preordained. For, if so, what was the point of living? Perhaps, just perhaps, he dared to imagine, impediments were placed in our paths by the gods, and a man was judged by how well he dealt with those obstacles . . . . Instead of a man being wholly defined by his fate, perhaps a man__ very character was defined by his response to the fate that was spun for him. Couldn__ it at least be possible?