Word: monad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known as Orena, was cast upon an Afric isle when her yacht was riven with electric bolts from an oxeye tornado. There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad. Soon he was able to convince her, however, that he was descended from the Child Crusaders of the 13th century, of noble birth-in fact, a Duke of Lorraine. His ancestors, she recalled, had sailed out of Marseilles in gulafres and dromons. Orena thought of a thousand centuries budding and withering...