Persis And Fortuna

(Fortuna in Vienna.)

Ensign Flandry, CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.

Flandry thinks of Persis d'Io:

"...twice she had stepped between him and catastrophe..." (p. 189)

The first time, she had grabbed Hauksberg's right wrist and dragged his blaster down. The second time, she had consensual sex with the loathsome Otto Brummelmann. But it was sheer luck for Flandry that Hauksberg's concubine was so resourceful. And there is a lot of luck in the remaining Young Flandry novels as Flandry's daring plans, plots and ploys all succeed, apparently defying probability.

Audentes Fortuna Iuvat.

Or is luck a psychic power? See here.

Andrea says that his deity is Fortuna. Someone with my advantages in life could have been an inner conformist, an outer conformist or a non-conformist. I happened to be the third option but this seems to have been down to the genetic lottery. I do not believe in either reincarnation or rebirth and they just put the explanation further back in time.