*a professor of politics or theory or something of the sort had two horseshoes hanging by his door.

a friend, dropping by for a visit paused to ask the professor,

clearly a man beyond the hocus pocus of four leaf clovers and the like,

why he would have two lucky horseshoes by  his door..?

the professor replied, “of course, of course I don’t believe that sort of b.s.

such nonsense!

but you know, the thing is, some one had told me they would be effective

even if i didn’t believe in them, so i figured there was no harm in trying.”

*

(a rough almost pointless paraphrase of the same story told by Slavoj Zizek… invoked even though, of course, i don’t believe in it, *wink.)