‘You ought to be proud of yourself,’ she says. ‘Not everyone enters history. There are people who spend their whole lives trying to be part of history and fail. I will never be part of history, for example.’ ‘But you do not try,’ he says. ‘No, I don’t try. I am content to be who I am.’ What she does not say is: Why should I want to end up in history? What is history to me?
