[ i regret to inform you that malibu is lu bixing's favorite ]

Isn't that the truth! You're correct - maybe it is changing, and maybe that's what we learn to study. To find something in the frame of mind that we find it in now, and then to study it, to learn it, to find evidence of its former and theorize onto its future based on it. Maybe even to find that all of your initial theories were wrong! That's the joy of it, right?

And originality, too - every person who thinks they have an original idea, more often than not, someone else thought of it first, and tried it first. It can be depressing - life changing, even, the type of thing to turn an optimist to a cynic.

[ he also seems perfectly fine just

saying that,

and then huffs a laugh at the end. ]

Maybe! I guess that's the point of hell. It sounds like the hangovers might be a big part of it.