Arthur Schopenhauer, in his essay called "Transcendent Speculation on the Apparent Deliberateness in the Fate of the Individual,"
points out that when you reach an advanced age and look back over your
lifetime, it can seem to have had a consistent order and plan, as though
composed by some novelist.
Events that when they occurred had seemed
accidental and of little moment turn out to have been indispensable
factors in the composition of a consistent plot. So who composed that
plot?