To Have or not To Have

"Don't you feel it?" he kidded her. "The historicity?"
She said, "what is" "historicity"?"
"When a thing has history in it. (...) One has historicity, a hell of a lot of it. As much as any object ever had, And one has nothing. Can you feel it?" (...) "You can't. You can't tell wich is wich. There's no "mystical plasmic presence", no aura around it."

The Man in the High Castle - Phillip K. Dick