Jared Gibson’s Reviews > Infinite Jest > Status Update

"... both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life... Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'Psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer."

--p. 291