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"Is it possible that the meaningless of this project has made it tiresome?"

It's badly paraphrased but it will have to do. There is no going back. What we call "going back" is just going forward with some extra redundancy. I digress. Well, I mean there is no such thing as digression either I suppose. Right. Right, sorry. You get the point.

All projects are meaningless. We continue them until they become tiresome. Or until the consequences of stopping no longer outweigh the burden of continuing. This project merely avoids a particular type of meaning.

I am interested in mathematics and physics, in philosophy and logic, in art and literature. In short I love ideas. There was a time, I confess, when I sneered at those who were amused by sports, by fashion, by celebrity. But do I learn calculus out of some perverse sense of justice? Do I think about reality because it is my duty? Do I sing and dance because that is what I feel great men must do? Of course not. I do those things because I enjoy them, and for no other reason.