"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings." Okay. So there is no word, mood, conviction, delineation of the condition by Shakespeare I dispute, but each piercing of our veil is state-dependent, maybe plot-, story- or historical-fact ("fact") dependent. I am no Caesar; whatever tragedies allotted me have been lived. I'm sure of that, and my surety is interesting.
I can't say another plane won't fly into a building, that my neighborhood won't become a shrine, again, to the lost; that the unpleasant, the shouldn't have happened happenings or memories from the past won't spring to action like Civil War reenactors. I can say my response and assessment instincts are changed. All that damn positive thinking has its impact.
Trying to break what feels like a creative dry spell I found this quotation:
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