Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?
Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?
Little things affect little minds.
To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.
Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.
