 In fact, it is a weak fabric, constantly changing and fluctuating.There is a "capital of an aged empire" which bears only a vague resemblance to London; the street plans, the systems of communications and public transportation, the orthography of books, are all constantly changing and shifting - in random response to some change made in time past by the Otherhood - and the new reality seems to have "always been there" but the President also retains the memory that but a short time ago it was different.Moreover, there is a far more fundamental change - the world is no longer inhabited by a single intelligent race, but by many