"I told [McCourt] the season is like a kaleidoscope. Every day it changes one degree and the picture is different."

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By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.

— Marilyn Ferguson