Remember? History controls everything we do, so there is no point in observing individual actions. Let's examine the individual actions of over 500 characters at great length. The end.
I stood before her crushed, crestfallen, revoltingly confused, and I believe I smiled as I did my utmost to wrap myself in the skirts of my ragged wadded dressing gown--exactly as I had imagined the scene not long before in a fit of depression.