From an entry October 7, 2020 in a notebook for an unrealized project, dated 12/4/2014: (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!”)