Both Uses of
fatalistic
in
Light in August
- In the rife, pinkwomansmelling, obscurity behind the curtain he squatted, pinkfoamed, listening to his insides, waiting with astonished fatalism for what was about to happen to him.†
Chpt 6 *
- But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
one who believes that all events are predetermined in advance and human beings are powerless to change them