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  “What does a peripheral totality in time and space do?” wonderèd Sally.  

  Every one else was messing about sociocratically.

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  “The outskirts of a city form a periphery of urbanity; time zones may vary,” replièd Quincy.  He went on: “The peripheral totality maintains locality without itself, spatially, striated or smooth within, and governs time by a network of staircases, corridors, traffic lights and all manner of synchronizing elements.”  

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