There are many details in “August Heat” that support this statement. The first one is when Mr. Atkinson draws a man he has never seen. This man was going to be prosecuted for a crime. Then, he walks without a destination and finds that man. The man has a gravestone with his name and birthday without knowing him. He says that he wrote the first name and birthday that came to his mind to exhibit the gravestone. All these details suggest that both foresaw what was going to happen to each of them, hence prove that their lives were already premeditated.
