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The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting heresey. Shake the tube and see what comes out. Chronology irritates me. There is no chronology inside my head. I am composed of myriad Claudias who spin and mix and part like sparks of sunlight on water. The pack of cards I carry around is forever shuffled and re-shuffled; there is no sequence, everything happens at once. The machines of the new technology, I understand, perform in much the same way: all knowledge is stored, to be summoned up at the flick of a key. They sound, in theory, more efficient. Some of my keys don't work; others demand pass-words, codes, random unlocking sequences. The collective past, curiously, provides these. It is public property, but it is also deeply private. We all look differently at it. My Victorians are not your Victorians. My seventeenth century is not yours. The voice of John Aubrey, of Darwin, of whoever you like, speaks in one tone to me, in another to you.
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POWER 304 clues
CHARACTER 172 clues
WISDOM 134 clues
HISTORY 105 clues
ADVENTURE 77 clues
MADNESS 67 clues
CONFORMITY 66 clues
RESISTANCE 35 clues
ANTARCTICA 29 clues
TRANSFORMATION 27 clues
MEMORIES 23 clues
LISTENING 16 clues
INFLUENCES 6 clues
LIMITATIONS 2 clues

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The old plural of Eye.
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