Anachronic Order/Quotes

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"In writing these yarns I've always felt less as creating them than as if I were simply chronicling his adventures as he told them to me. That's why they skip about so much, without following a regular order. The average adventurer, telling tales of a wild life at random, seldom follows any ordered plan, but narrates episodes widely separated by space and years, as they occur to him."

"Now we've gotta skip a hundred years or three
"'cause this story ain't told chronologically."