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This kind of knowledge is that old, familiar friend:
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foreshadowing, of course.
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So, this is yet another kind of knowledge that Jones puts in front of us.
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It's the proleptic knowledge, the knowledge looking ahead to the future,
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that the author of a grand narrative is in the sole position of giving.
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It's the prerogative of the maker to tell us what's coming next,
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because it's only the maker who knows what the whole
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is looking like, what the whole will look like,
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because it's the maker's intention that will determine everything that happens.
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And so, there's yet this other layer of knowledge and of voice.
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There is a narrator in the mix here who is not Moses,
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who is Jones, or the writer of this novel,