"The clinamen or swerve, which is the Urizenic equivalent of the hapless errors of re-creation made by the Platonic demiurge, is necessarily the central working concept of the theory of Poetic Influence, for what divides each Poet from hos Poetic Father[!](as so saves, by division) is an instance of creative revisionism.

"we must understand that the clinament stems always from a 'Pataphysical' sense of the arbitrary. The poet so stations his precursor, so swerves his context, that the visionary objects, with their higher intensity, fade into the continuum.

it is poetic misreadings, the poet swerving away from the precursor

"the tessera or link, a different and subtler kind of revisionary ratio. In the tessera, the later poet provides what his imagination tells him would complete the otherwise "truncated" precursor poem and poet, a 'completion' that is as must misprision as a revisionary swerve is."

The tessera functions "as a token of recognition, or 'password.' The tessera was employed in early mystery religions where fitting together again the two halves of a broken piece of pottery was used as a means of recognitino by the initiates."

"In this sense of completing link, the teesera represents any later poet's attempt to persuade himself (and us) that the precursor's Word would be worn out if not redeemed as a newly fulfilled and enlarged Word of the ephebe."

tessear is ....completion and antithesis, as though the precursor had failed to go far enough -- atoken of recognition