Nostalgia paints a smile on the stony face of the past.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.
A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.