The prophet is not diverted by illusions of past, present and future. The fixity of language determines such linear distinctions. Prophets hold a key to the lock of language. the mechanical image remains only an image to them. This is not a mechanical universe. The linear progression of events is imposed by the observer. Cause and effect? That's not it at all. The prophet utters fateful words. You glimps a thing "destined to occur". but the prophetic instant releases something of infinite portent and power. The universe under goes a ghostly shift. Thus, the wise prophet conceals actuality behind shimmering labels. The uninitiated then belive the prophetic language is ambiguous. The listener distrusts the prohpetic messenger. Instinct tells you how the utterance blunts the power of such words. The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for youself.

-The Stolen Journals