Miss Fortune

[deckardcanine]

I once read the news that a “psychic” declared
Her competitors launched an attack.
I thought, “If you’re psychic, you knew that they would,
So why didn’t you sneak out the back?”
But that’s when it struck me: If they’re psychic too,
Then they’d know of her future as well.
When two sides see what’s coming, a stalemate’s assured,
So there’s really no fortune to tell.

Comments

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

And there's that common trope of being able to foresee the future but being unable to change it (Twelve Monkeys, Cassandra, etc.)

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

In that event, she could at least warn the police it was going to happen. Then they could watch and arrest the assailants.

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

They did something like that in one of the Terry Pratchett novels, I think it was "Good Omens". A witch knew she was going to be burned at the stake, so she packed her dress with explosives and took out the entire town square with her when it happened.