"I don't know. It's nice to say, perhaps, that I am not to blame for some things that have occurred in my life. On the other hand, I dislike the idea of having no control over my life. There is not much winning either way..." Felix, however, had had enough to drink for this, but it was already starting to make him melancholy, "but I never studied philosophy either, excepting what I picked up from Gideon. My earlier education was rather...pragmatic."