Class Reminisce
  with
	count 0,
	number 1,
	invoke [;
		if (self has general)
			return;
		self.count++;
		if (self.count >= self.number) {
			give self general;
			self.description();
		}
	],
  has ~general;
	
Reminisce ReminisceOrreryMask
  with
	description [;
		print "^",
			(emph) "~But is it reality?~ The question sparkles with
			unheeded eagerness; the questioner's gaze is fiercely entangled
			among the turning rings and delicate gears.", "^^",
			(emph) "~Of course it is not,~ comes the reply. ~The model
			has not even the right form. The sky is not full of wheels
			upon wheels. But--~ overrunning the interruption ~--that
			does not mean the model lacks", " power.", (emph) "~
			The voice is suddenly dry. ~Symbolism and intent, child.
			What better symbol for power than this: a machine just
			within our own limits of understanding?~",
			"^";
	];

Reminisce ReminisceDarkRoom
  with
	description [;
		print "^",
			(emph) "~...Those who seek in certain remote places -- at 
			the roots of mountains or on lifeless stony islands -- find
			traces of men who predate the history of Man. Ruined
			buildings, monoliths, carvings. Stones of monumental,
			inhuman size. Signs that cannot
			be read; sculpture that will not please the eye.~", "^^",
			(emph) "~Then an empire once flourished, before the names
			and kings we know?~ This voice you recognize,
			with no perceptible surprise, as your own.", "^^",
			(emph) "~Some tell so. But see you,~ the other gestures,
			~these traces are", " only ", (emph) "found by those who
			seek. Always and only. So say: are they remnants of
			a past which is lost? Or are they remnants of the present,
			always to hand, but out of eye; until a seeker's eye
			shapes them?~",
			"^";
	];

Reminisce ReminisceMemPalace
  with
	number 2,
	description [;
		print "^",
			(emph) "~The technique of the memory palace is commonplace,~
			says a voice you remember, ~not just among wizards, but
			in all the mantic disciplines. One commonly uses
			one's home as an anchor: familiar rooms, passages,
			possessions become the keys to organized thought
			and knowledge. By passing through the house-in-mind,
			one passes unerringly through memory.~", "^^",
			(emph) "~Of course, among wizards, the technique
			may be elevated to a new plane.~",
			"^";
	];

Reminisce ReminisceToLab
  with
	description [;
		print "^",
			(emph) "~You tear the borders of nations!~ comes
			the angry shout. ~No. You are the nail, obdurate from
			an ancient age, upon which nations snag and tear themselves.
			No thought has passed in the civilized world for an dozen
			centuries which did not scrape upon your presence!~", "^^",
			(emph) "~So?~ you reply. ~Then soon you shall have peace.
			I shall tear open the borders of the world. I shall take
			the step outside.~", "^^",
			"And your eye snags again upon the book, the heart of
			this place, in which you have nearly done that work.^";
	];

Reminisce ReminisceSpireGone
  with
	description [;
		print "^",
			(emph) "~Take thought upon a youth-forgotten dream", "^",
			(emph) "That comes again to crowd you from your bed", "^",
			(emph) "Which roils now with waves, or grief, or stone", "^",
			(emph) "Where once you slept alone inside your head.~", "^^",
			"You do not know whose voice once sang that to you.^";
	];

Reminisce ReminisceGarden
  with
	description [;
		print "^",
			(emph) "~Nothing delights a wizard's mind so much as a
			formal garden.~", "^^",
			(emph) "~As a focus of power?~ --Eagerly.", "^^",
			(emph) "The reply is a laugh. ~Why spoil it?~ And then
			soberly. ~But as you carry yourself through years and
			ages, do not hold such a garden -- even a living one --
			unchanged. Such an artful place is smaller than your mind;
			you cannot inhabit it without growing small and comfortable
			within it. Build it -- destroy it -- rewrite it from
			lifetime to lifetime. Some masters of magic,~ the voice adds in
			afterthought, ~come to prefer the gardening.~",
			"^";
	];