lost thread on foreshadowing (or is that the right word)

[Mark Kohut]

I din't have time to comment on an early post of Monte's, which I cannot find now,
in which he points out how often when we are introduced to a Pynchon character or
two meet in a scene, they are presented to us with some kind of foreknowledge....THEN.
 
Let's all discuss this? What could be some meanings of THAT, since it is very true? 
No "chance" in their life, in the story? All is fated (already; to them). Nabokov-like patterning?
 
 
(I just caught some of Kubrick/Nabokov's Lolita televisually, including the wonderful scene
when Mason reflects that if he made it look like chance, he might get away with shooting Lolita's 
mom. Shelley Winters.....but then he can't do it, he tells us...and she gets killed by chance. (hit by a car in the movie
the famous "picnic/lightning' in the novel) 
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