ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how beginnings project the movement and authority of prophecy onto the anticipated resolution. If the seer pursues foreknowledge, the modern poet or writer is in quest of knowledge. Both observe the signs of the visible world and probe their enigmas. Both adjust their vision to reality and reality to their vision. The first removes the temporal barriers between the present and the future and probes the invisible network of connections that seed the present for the fulfillment of the future. The second undertakes to obtain knowledge through the creative intervention of the mnemonic potentials and the acceleration of metaphoric collisions. Both present their messages in terms that are only partially transparent. Each text has at its origin a metaphoric field, where certain things are possible and others are not. As the memory of the reader begins to create and unify the metaphoric field of the poem, it also projects this unity onto the world.
