Sublime

They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad:

Ghost [Beneath] Swear. HAMLET Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there, truepenny? Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage-- Consent to swear.

Some people, like Shakespeare in the sonnet quoted above, think of particular events as being ‘fixed’, and the line itself as moving past them

This is essentially the plot of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It is not merely the tragic story of two young lovers. It’s the tragedy of a warring city devolving into mimetic chaos. The opening line of the play is, “Two households, both alike in dignity.” Yet they hate each other.

Seek for thy noble father in the dust: