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Definition
one who believes that all events are predetermined in advance and human beings are powerless to change them
- 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.Chapter 6 (12% in)
- But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.Chapter 12 (14% in)
There are no more uses of "fatalistic" in Light in August.
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