This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.
Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.
Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.
If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.
At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop.
The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.