“That’s impossible.” “Only to small minds,” Gertrude said. - Michael Swanwick

Everyone dies—the rearrangement of when is a matter of only statistical interest.

You have to spell things out for the press—you can’t rely on them to know even the simplest things.

Let me explain to you," the Horned One said, "the nature of history."
"What?"
"The first thing you need to know is that history happens almost exclusively in the dark...Here is your second lesson: History is that which cannot be prevented...Here is your third and final lesson: History is simply life with all the bits any sane person might care to experience left out.