In both of the V&A galleries, the new curatorial orthodoxy was clearly on show – emphasising chronological narrative and breaking down the old scholarly demarcations of geography and classification.
The thread of biography, however fine it may be, is chronological and cannot be broken up or examined in part.
"All for Love" steps back in time nearly 40 years, breaking the chronological order of Mehta's Continents of Exile series, whose eight previous volumes progressed through his childhood in India -- including his experience of blindness, the result of meningitis when he was 3 years old -- his education in the United States and England, and a 33-year tenure as a staff writer for The New Yorker.
By bumping the email thread to the top of your inbox, Gmails also breaks the chronological order of your inbox.
The second by second and minute by minute chronological order paradigm is broken, and like QWERTY, is a legacy from a world where systems were not smart enough to determine relevancy and real networks did not exist.
It is broken down into chronological chapters, beginning in 1991, when Hannah is a clueless child, and extending to 2005, when she remains pretty clueless at 28.
The inclusion of Ms. Smith's work is only one of several instances in which "Making Choices" breaks from its chronological boundaries.
Act II begins with selections from "Magical Mystery Tour" (1967) and the White Album (1968), but breaks out of chronological order with numbers from "Rubber Soul" (1965) and "Revolver" (1966), including "Norwegian Wood," "In My Life" and "Eleanor Rigby".
And then, once your brief period of prime time has passed, when your inner and outer worlds align and you at last find yourself at one with both yourself and your chronological peers and can start breaking out the good china, napery and Ottolenghi, you are not so far from death that your memories will start to turn on you.
A chronological system for indexing information breaks down quickly once the amount of information received reaches a certain critical point.
