Cool is grace in secular form. Either you have grace or you don't; the same with cool. If you have been chosen by grace, everything you do will be suffused by grace. Likewise, if you're cool whatever you do is cool. But cool is even more rigorously exclusive than the strictest kind of grace. Those lacking grace may under some circumstances approach closer to it by sincere intention and an abundance of good works. But, if you're not cool, then, sadly, no amount of trying will make you cool. Indeed, working to become cool will actually make you more uncool. The dead-certain confidence of those who know they have grace, or cool, maddens and fascinates those who don't.