>For me history is just fiction that by sheer accident actually happened (well kinda, because there's a lot of post-factum narrative in history that might be fa

>For me history is just fiction that by sheer accident actually happened (well kinda, because there's a lot of post-factum narrative in history that might be false as any other story). Nowadays I've just started assuming that real life is bad alternate-universe fanfiction. Someone, somewhere, in some other universe is enjoying a reasonable, functional universe that runs on clear rules instead of sheer perversity.