Fundamental ontology is not possible because of the nonuniformity of time. Physicists privately acknowledge that their time cannot be time itself, what time itself is cannot be known. Fortunately, beyond all putatively definitive ontologies and pharisaical physical scenarios, we catch an astonishing glimpse of time's dialectic, the secret of historical time, cheek by jowl a sweeping reappraisal of the temporal condition of creators who must climb into deviant spatiotemporal identities. Surging with startling pirouettes, in style, genre, and philosophy, Berengere blasts every tradition and trend.