It must be indicative of something, besides the redistribution of wealth.
(He muses.)
List of possible explanations.
One: I’m willing it. Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man spinning double-headed coins, and betting against himself in private atonement for an unremembered past.
Two: time has stopped dead, and the single experience of one coin being spun once has been repeated ninety times…On the whole, doubtful.
Three: Divine intervention, that is to say, a good turn from above concerning him, compare children of Israel, or retribution from above concerning me, compare Lot’s wife.
Four: a spectacular vindication of the principle that each individual coin spun individually is as likely to come down heads as tails and therefore should cause no surprise each individual time it does.
Syllogism the second:
One, probability is a factor which operates within natural forces.
Two, probability is not operating as a factor.
Three, we are now within un-, sub-, or supernatural forces.
Discuss. Not too heatedly.
The scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear. Keep tight hold and continue while there’s time. Now-- counter to the previous syllogism: tricky one, follow me carefully, it may prove a comfort.
If we postulate, and we just have, that within un-, sub-, or supernatural forces the probability is that the law of probability will not operate as a factor, then we must accept that the probability of the first part will not operate as a factor, in which case the law of probability will operate as a factor within un-, sub-, or supernatural forces. And since it obviously hasn’t been doing so, we can take it that we are not held within un-, sub-, or supernatural forces after all; in all probability, that is.