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" Kruppe wonders now, in the presentsight, as it were – or is it is? – what pedestrian activities or seemingly innocuous events will, in the hindsight of the future, be seen to be foreshadowings of the grievous event which may, or may not, come to pass, and which, by the forewarning, may thusly be headed off. "
― Ian C. Esslemont , Orb Sceptre Throne (Novels of the Malazan Empire #4)