"I don't see how things could possibly get any worse for this family," prophesied that sage of the salon, Audrey.
Padumuttara is said to have prophesied the fulfilment of this in the era of Gautama Buddha, 1000 aeons into the future.
(At a recent Singularity summit, it was prophesied that this Rapture-like moment would happen around 2040).
At Jonathan Cape's launch party for Martin Amis's autobiography Experience (he'd had some 50 years' worth of it then – everything has come early for Martin) his editor prophesied that this was "a book which would be read in 200 years time".
He prophesied, "If this problem of racism does not get solved, the soul of our nation will be lost.
Iran's influential Revolutionary Guard condemned Saudi Arabia's "medieval act of savagery," and prophesied that this would result in the "downfall" of that country's monarchy.
Henry James prophesied that "her death will have consequences for this country which no man can foresee..
Like Bickerstaff, Saunders confidently, and, of course, wrongly, prophesied the death of his chief rival — in this case, the unfortunate Titan Leeds — reading the future by the stars badly to suggest that it couldn't possibly be done well.
