A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

...This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for "Are you fucking kidding me?

Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying.
"Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason,
but at the very least you will be living grandly.

No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines--ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in our sad, bewildering lives...

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.