How do we know a text has begun?

Even how can one explore the whereabouts of the beginning

of this very text? These questions might be perplexing but are never concentrated upon with such
a pro-eye as by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle in their essay “The Beginning” from An
Introduction to Literature and Theory. The essay not only values the beginning of any text but
also introduces us to the multiplicity of the beginnings of the same.
Carefully chosen examples to elaborate on the subject of ‘beginning’ can be traced easily in the
essay. With a critical remark, the essay opens with layman’s accent of finding the origin of
beginning of a text.