Hints of the future

[alliekiwi.livejournal.com]

'Tis midnight where I am, so this is a bit of a fly-by posting on my way to bed.

I'm still plodding through Falconer's Lure and noticed the following bit (specific line of intereste bolded by me):

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Nicola gave herself a shake, as if to slough off the cloak of invisibility which seemed to have enveloped her in the last half-hour. She hadn't known before that you could be in a car with anyone, as Ellen Holroyd had with her, and not even see them. In time, Nicola was to learn that theatre people often behaved like this to those outside their charmed circle, but at the moment it really seemed most preculiar.

pg 189 GGB Edition

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From this I read that Lawrie does end up on the stage, and that is how Nicola comes to know about theatre people.

I know that Runaway Home has a few hints about the future, but mostly minor things such as Patrick finding the candle stubs in his drawer and initially not remembering why they were there. Then there were the snippets of conversation regarding the near tragedy with Giles and Peter.

However, do we get other snippets about the future?

Comments

[barsine.livejournal.com]

In 'The Cricket Term' it mentions the sixth formers looking back years later, and reminiscing about Lois Sanger and wondering what ever happenned to her ...

[occasionalhope.livejournal.com]

On the way home from Oxford in The Ready Made Family which has a mention of a Latin lesson a year later, when translating the term lacrimae sunt rerum reminds her of that moment. Which one has to forget about while reading The Cricket Term.

[antfan.livejournal.com]

I've always found that "tears of things" reference - that whole scene with Edwin - rather moving. I think maybe those looks into the future work because AF does them so seldom. If she quite often gave slices of the future it would be ridiculous, and intrusive, but the occasional reference is tantalising.

[owl]

Why do you have to forget about it?

[(Anonymous)]

Because in Cricket Term, it looks for a while as though Nicola will have to leave Kingscote, which doesn't fit in with her learning Latin there a year later. Though I suppose she could be learning Latin at the local grammar? does it specify that she's in a Latin lesson at Kingscote?

[occasionalhope.livejournal.com]

Yes - "a year later, when her friend Miranda was called on during a Latin lesson to translate the time-smoothed phrase sunt lacrimae rerum, which she did, doubtfully, as "there are tears of things?" only to be asked by Miss Cartwright what that was supposed to mean, Nicola, though she could have offered no better translation, thought of that train journey and knew exactly what it meant."

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

I never thought of that! Probably because I read the Cricket Term years before I ever got my hands on Ready Made Family, so I was never in doubt of the outcome of the whole leaving-Kingscote huha.

[(Anonymous)]

But she doesn't, ultimately, have to leave - because Lawrie wins the Prosser scholarship. So, although there are various alarms and excursions about leaving in The Cricket Term, her Kingscote education continues uninterrupted.

Or am I missing the point of the post? If so - sorry!