When you are too close your efforts are directed at the detail.
It is subconscious action that makes history's marks.
One step removed is one step forward.
Too close and you choke it.
This is not at odds but not quite the same as the idea that history is made of many pasts, presents and ideas of the future.
That one moment is never the result of one man's action.
That's what Tolstoy says.
And he's generally right.
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device