"When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist"

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Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.

— Hugh Massingberd