 It began with the creation of man and will come to an end when the last human consciousness is extinguished.All other beginnings and endings are arbitrary conventions — makeshifts parading as self-sufficient entireties… The cumbrous shears of the historian cut out a few figures and a brief passage of time from that enormous tapestry.Above and below the laceration, to the right and left of it, the severed threads protest against the injustice, against the imposture.