He saw Benito and Juana, Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl; he was on the pyramid and in it, and he saw the silver cone of Orizaba.

Then he shifted suddenly back to Texas and the wild border, the Comanche and the buffalo.
His life now appeared to have no order.

Time turned backward.

Scenes occurred out of their sequence.

Often they would appear for a second or third time.