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Fate / Destiny

Fate

also: végzet, sors

In The Civilizer, Stroom claims Fate drives him eastward; István retorts that what Stroom calls Fate, they call a dog. The exchange satirizes the pseudo-historical determinism used to justify Austrian administrative expansion into Hungary.

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