lost in the foliage

Just so this blog doesn't feel neglected while I try to catch up on history homework and sort through my recent thoughts on the acceptance of mediocrity in "Christian" work, teenagers: the myth and the reality, and on the problem of perpetual shortages like bank account balances and bookshelf space, here's Hugo:

The events we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and living reality that the historian sometimes neglects, for lack of time and space. Yet in them, we insist, is the life, the heartbeat, the tremor of humanity. Little incidents, we believe we have said, are, so to speak, the foliage of great events and are lost in the great span of history.

-- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables