 So history becomes a great song, Augustine’s Carmen Humanum; in its every line, perhaps every tone, becomes a lived human life. As soon and as often as the lines rhyme, love has once again become stronger than death. Then from out of absurd contingencies, from adverse circumstances, from silent events of epoch-making necessities, in which a lengthy ingested illness is finally confronted, crossfertilized and consequently overcome (2008/9, 3: 513).