安娜问，这有关系吗？结果是结果，而不是达到结果的途径。这通常是运气的全部问题。乌尔夫对此进行了思考。运气在人类事务中的作用一直吸引着他。我们所做的很多事情都受到我们控制范围之外的因素的影响 - 他人的变化，我们以无知的何处发起的事件序列，偶然的会议导致做出决定会改变我们生活的决定。
(Anna asked, Does that matter? What counts is the result, not the route by which one reaches the result. It's often all a matter of luck. Ulf pondered this. The role of luck in human affairs had always intrigued him. So much of what we did was influenced by factors that were beyond our control-the vagaries of others, sequences of events that we initiated in ignorance of where they would lead, chance meetings that led to the making of a decision that would change our life.)