The Event (n.) is the rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance of which life consists. As such, those many men who do not have those moments at all are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.
An Event (n.) has no greatness in itself — not even the destruction of peoples or founding of empires; it needs greatness of spirit in those who accomplish it and in those who experience it, or history blows it away like a flake of snow.
An Event (n.) great events are not our loudest but our stillest hours — when the noise and smoke clear, very little has happened.
An Event (n.) is neither effected nor does it effect; causa is a capacity to produce effects super-added to events.
An Event (n.) there is no event in itself — what happens is a group of phenomena selected and synthesised by an interpreting being.