WORLD VOICES

CORONOLOGY
  BY CLAIRE BATEMAN

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Z   A collective rather than an individual illumination, the zeitgeist crown's appearance depends on both its chronological and geographical coordinates. In France during the reign of the Sun King, for instance, it glittered like a chandelier comprised entirely of ice crystals, its voltage a by-product of the velocity at which it threatened to fall.