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"... that's how the world changes. It's either so quick that we never know what hits us, or so gradual that we don't notice. It's only later, when books are written and scholars decide what mattered and what didn't, that red lines are drawn - before this point, the world was this way, after this point, everything was different. You could be there and not have a clue."