Topical Guide 650
Mark Dorset
Foreshadowing
What a Piece of Work I Am, Chapter 4:
She ran to another room, leaving me alone in her living room for a few uneasy moments. I didn’t know what to do with myself, and that is exactly what I mean. I felt an odd sense of removal from myself, as if a part of me had stepped aside from what had been just a moment before the whole of me […] leaving the rest of me to decide as if for the first time exactly how, with what motivation and in what style, to cross my legs or scratch my ear or draw a breath. Being in Ariane’s house always had this effect on me. […]
“Look at this!” she cried.
She was wearing the hat she had worn as a waitress at Captain White’s. […]
“You kept it?” I asked. I was embarrassed by the theatrically exaggerated surprise and incredulity in my voice. I was overplaying all of this. I told myself to get a grip on myself.
[to be continued]
See also:
Foreshadowing TG 63; TG 84; TG 127; TG 128; TG 140; TG 142; TG 147; TG 459; TG 543
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