Every episode is unique, but is also part of a larger design that can't be seen without the telescope of distance. Time sharpens the focus on what we see. Circa used to sigh and groan at her mother's speeches. Because my dear it is an inevitable force. History is not life you know.
History is only the background to the action.
And I would rather be where the action is. I remember that conversation with all its strange visionary undercurrents so clearly now. It has taken me this while and all this pain to work out just what it was that they were arguing about. Circa's passion for reading caused endless discussions about whether it was fiction or history that could reveal most about the mystery of life itself. She lived in a world of stories and after school she went to university to study them some more.