Why did all of this come to me as a presentiment?

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

Or maybe Mami had a presentiment of what was to come.

NEWYORKER: The Pura Principle

In the grocery store, listening to the same talk over and over, I began to feel a superstitious fear, the presentiment that in these endless discussions something awful was being hatched.

NEWYORKER: Vast Hell