Kaleidoscope

`Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively  in different orders  elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern’   -  - Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove, Pt 1 trans. by C. K. Scott Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin, revised by D. J. Enright (London: Everyman, 2001), p. 501.