The two successive top-lick curves on the course – where Senna and the day before, in a grim prophetic preface, Roland Ratzenberger died – have been significantly slowed by lower-gear chicanes and gravel traps.
In a previous era, the most prophetic evocations of where we were headed were produced by two Old Etonian novelists – George Orwell and Aldous Huxley.
It was a prophetic choice: The Moment, by Margaret Atwood, which begins, "The moment when, after many years/ of hard work and a long voyage…" Distracted by the Ben Howard track playing in his ears, Mushy managed to read the verse, unsteady at first but building in confidence.
At a time when the American forces were seen in Europe as liberating heroes, it was remarkably prophetic but was "of course" banned, Mr Sellars said.
The Tories' belief that the British public's doubts over Miliband's suitability for the premiership may still end up being prophetic, yet right now any such concerns aren't putting a dent in the polling deadlock.
As a speaker in the Commons he often seemed to deploy a fiercely private logic, yet his carefully articulated, pedantic performances could make irrelevance sound prophetic.
In a prophetic warning, as he waited with colleagues from Better Together at the Marriott Hotel in Glasgow for the formal declaration, the former chancellor told Cameron in a telephone call that his planned announcement would allow the SNP a route back from defeat.
Today, with the school it evolved into gradually emerging from "special measures", the choice of emblem seems prophetic.
His words so far are prophetic: I'm happy to tell you what our general approach will be during the race.
The impending failure had been clear to Fitzgerald by the time he finished Gatsby – and the fact that in 1925 most Americans were still recklessly chasing the dream had a great deal to do with the initial commercial and critical failure of The Great Gatsby, which would not be hailed as a masterpiece until the 50s, once hindsight had revealed its prophetic truth.
The formation seeking authenticity from the Brutus Myth and the prophetic mutterings of 13th century seers, it is a truly false premise from which to construct an identity.
