Do you see foreshadowing in this quote?

Question

“in fact, it was established that I would go through here without leaving any traces, and Instead, every minute I spend here I am leaving more tracesI leave traces if I do not speak with anyone, since I stick out as a man who won't open his mouth; I leave traces if I speak with someone because every word spoken is a word that remains and can crop up again later, with quotation marks or without. Perhaps this is why the author
piles supposition on supposition in long paragraphs without dialogue, a thick, opaque layer of lead where I may pass unnoticed, disappear.
Italo Calvino-"if on a winter's night a traveler"

Definition: Foreshadowing is the presentation in a work of literature of hints and clues that tip the reader off as to what is to come later in the work.

Answer 1

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I wouldn't think so much foreshadowing as taking the story into more depth; as if the character were having some kind of revelation.

Answer 2

something he says in passing will come back to haunt him.

Answer 3

no sorry

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Answer 4

many skeletons in his closet and it haunts him inside

Answer 5

Well yah i guess because we can tell that the traces should lead somewhere so...
The text is a bit hard to understand though.

Answer 6

Sorry, I don't know this author or this work. I don't see foreshadowing in what is quoted here, however. There may be, if I had more context (what happens before and after this section).