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understanding they gain evolves from previous knowledge filtered through
direct causes. Kivrin, in Doomsday Book, has a recorder implanted into her
wrists that activates when she holds her hands in prayer. Seconds before she
journeys to the Middle Ages, she records her thoughts about Mr. Dunworthy,
her tutor. Though she travels backwards in time, her mental placement of self
rests firmly between past and future tenses:
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