Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. January 12, 1969
Birthday: January 12
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.
source: David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.155, Random House Group
topic: Editors, Chaos, Theory, Chaos Theory, Foreshadowing, Flashback