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p.270 an event, if considered in isolation, is unintelligible... For it to acquire
significance, it must be integrated into a pattern of other events, in relation to which it will become meaningful.
That is the function of narrative... in narrative history, an event, even though it is by definition unique and not comparable,
derives its significance from its position on the axis of the narrative, that is, on the axis of time.
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