Animation by Javier Jaén; photograph from Getty

(NOTES: need for completion, fixedness; the thing to be attained; what makes it all worthwhile, provides closure so the story can end;  Something is always far away. [quote from Rebecca Solnit];  Process/result, journey/destination, etc.)

(a stick figure sees a shiny thing atop a plinth, thinks, “I want that! Then it will be good.”)

(the same stick figure, now atop the plinth holding the shiny thing, sees another shiny thing atop another plinth a little farther on, thinks, “Oh! Look over there!”)

(flip phone photograph of the U.S. National Capitol columns)