Sep 18, 2005 19:00
18 yrs ago
English term
The chase has a beast in view
English
Art/Literary
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
The model of the line is a powerful part of traditional metaphysical terminology. ... Narrative event follows narrative event in a purely metonymic line, but the series tends to organize itself or to be organized in a causal chain. The chase has a beast in view. The end of the story is the retrospective revelation of the law of the whole. That law is an underlying "truth" that ties all together in an inevitable sequence revealing a hitherto hidden figure in the carpet.
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the story/narration/plot leads up to a message/point to be made/conclusion
I'm not sure whether "The chase has a beast in view" is a popular saying or just a metaphorical phrase the author of the work you quote is using to provide a description that can be turned into an image by the reader, but this is what I gather it means. It just makes sense within the context, which seems to be explaining linear- or cause-and-effect-type storytelling or narration.
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