"Between those happenings that prefigure it And those that happen in its anamnesis Occurs the Event, but that no human wit Can recognize until all happening ceases." A superb definition of "history," by Auden (who also had the best definition of love):https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/04/janna-levin-w-h-auden-the-more-loving-one/ …
Keep me from the old distress, Let me, for our happiness, Be the one to love the less: This is what I pray. ~ Dorothy Parker (from SOMEBODY'S SONG)