History is dead; this facilitates a historical retrospective and keeps it free of bias β at least for those who have suffered pain and put it behind them.
On the other hand, the things that gave substance to history and put it in motion cannot have died. They must have shifted from the phenomenal world to the reserves β to the night side. We dwell on fossil soil that can unexpectedly spew fire. Everything is probably inflammable, all the way to the core.
β Eumeswil