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But time is an old devil, and now it's playing its tricks on me. I finally decided to play, maybe out of being a gambler or maybe because I simply couldn't stand the feeling of the plastic chip against the palm of my hand any longer. It was making my hand sweat, wasn't it?
The roulette. Why not, a game like any other. But as soon as the chip was on the table I realized that, no, it wasn't really like the other games, where you take an active part. In the roulette you wait - that's all you do. You choose a number and then wait to find out if fate will favor you. And if there's one thing to learn from playing the roulette is that you should never, ever, let fate and time be the in charge of anything in your life. Fate and time, for God's sake, of all the things in the world! While you just stand there, helpless, uncapable of doing anything, looking at the thing go round and round. And so, time expands itself: the roulette has been spinning for ages now and it doesn't look as if it's slowing down just yet.