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Lotteries conjure up ideas of chance, destiny and the remote possibility that one’s circumstances could change drastically from one minute to the next. But Panama’s National Lottery possesses an additional layer of mystery and intrigue because numbers are hidden within the lottery balls, which are chosen and twisted open in elaborate and highly ceremonial public drawings. In Lottery, Panamanian National Lottery balls double as turtle eggs, mothballs, pearls, pills, Chinese dumplings and fruit, the spherical mystery objects propelling the interwoven dreamlike sequences inhabited by two …