Like a
non-sequitur, a pre-sequitur doesn't follow what immediately preceded it, but instead relates to
something that came much earlier. It is a sudden or
jarring break in the chronology, but it does follow... when you remember what it refers to.
Jen: Why did you leave Los Angeles?
Keith: Well... have you ever lived there?
Jen: I visited once, for a week. I liked the street performers on the boardwalk...
Keith: Oh, the boardwalk is where I got this red scarf!
Jen: I was trying to knit a scarf just like that last year but I
never finished.
Keith: Where do you get yarn around here?
Jen: There's a good store just a few blocks from here, wanna come see?
...
ten minutes later ...
Jen: Huh, do you smell Indian
food?
Keith: Hmm, not really... but now I'm in the
mood to get some Indian
Food.
Jen: Sure, let's!
Keith: It was the pollution, that's why.
Jen: pollution?
Keith: Yeah, I wanted somewhere with real air, and LA wasn't it!
Jen: Oh, why you left Los Angeles
