foretell

What follows is a chronicle of a death foretold.

“Apples float, and as the girls’ potential sweethearts ducked to catch the fruit with their teeth, future couplings were determined — or foretold.”

To a remarkable degree, they foretold many of the failures that would beset L.A.

All of this is foretold and symbolized in “Sundae.”

In his 1998 book “Paradise Lost,” Schrag sought not simply to foretell the region’s future, but to explicate how its future foretold what was in store for the country as a whole.